365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Autumn Splendor
Day 7: Unlike the vibrant shades of red and orange which make New England famous for fall color, a good year in the Pacific Northwest sees a transition largely in the range of yellows and golds. For the most part, autumn is an almanac of browns: umber, ochre, tan, buff, sienna, khaki, coffee, mahogany and on through a thousand shades too subtle for the eye to name. That is not to say it is a dull season, because when the sun breaks through and the Mountain peers over the tops of burnished evergreens and sere pasturelands, the landscape is gilded with copper and shimmers where it is laid against a pale aqua sky.
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autumn,
Mount Rainier,
pasture
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