I wish...

that the terrible looking tower the moose hunters have erected right in the opening I made to have a better view of The Field will be moved! As you know, The Field is very special to me and the area where I see the most animals but those having the hunting rights have also discovered this and erected a tower right in the middle of my line of sight. I have talked to one of them and he promised that they will move it but I do not know when.

This is what it looks like through a wide angle lens.



And this is what it looks like through a tele lens.



Secondly, I wish that these tall trees are cut down or I am afraid that they all come down on my shed a day when the winter storm is blowing from the north. They are all dead due to an attack by European spruce bark beetle (http://www.invasive.org/species/subject.cfm?sub=888)

F R O S T !

It has been minus 1.6 C tonight. It is not unusual that we have this kind of temperatures mid October but it is still nothing I look forward to. It means that the wonderful foliage we have had is soon over and will in a few months be replaced by naked trees covered in snow. Time to move on !

Autumn

The wet weather has made our "garden" a heaven for mushrooms of all sorts. Some you can eat, some you cannot. I wish I know but I do not and stick to the very safe, yellow ones :)





I am a great fan of lichen and admire their ability to live on the hardest of surfaces with hardly anything to survive of.



As I have reported earlier, most of the apples were attacked by various insects and the few that have survived are now taken take care of by the birds.