I went for a drive this morning to run a few errands.  I took the camera along.  On my way home, I took the back way so I could look at the stream after yesterday’s rains.  This is the Stony Kill (Kill means Creek in the Dutch language).

The rains, they have come and refilled our creeks and rivers.  It has been a warm autumn so far, we are going to have our first frost tonight, which is about two weeks later than normal.

The trees behind our house.  Lots of mature Sugar Maples, a few Oaks and even an  Elm tree that survived Dutch Elm disease.

Late color, most of the leaves are gone now, this Sugar Maple shows off across the street.

A working farm in the bottom lands around the Rondout Creek.  This is a typical small farm in the area.

Old bridge to nowhere across the Stony Kill.  Used to be part of a farm that has long since been abandoned, the land returning to forest.

A country lane.

Fallow farm, the buildings are slowly being reclaimed by nature.  It starts small, a little moss on the roof that traps moisture so more moss and lichens can grow.  This traps more moisture and the insects find a home.  Decay follows the insects and pretty soon there is a hole in the roof.  The building slowly falls in on itself and in a few years, little trace will remain accept perhaps the foundation.  Eventually everything returns to the earth from which it came.

Catskill mountains in the distance.

The long slumber, graves in an old cemetery covered with a blanket of leaves waiting for the first snow fall.

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