Happy Fall

What a beautiful day today. I raked a pile of leaves and Nayelli right away jumped in. The others soon followed. Halloween pumpkins served as perfect pails to collect nuts and leaves.

There was an occasional slight breeze that would send leaves floating down; some twirling fast, others lazily flip-flopping their way to the ground.

We sang one of my favorite chants:

When I rise, let me rise like a bird, joyfully.

When I fall, let me fall like a leaf, gracefully.
With no regrets.

I love this photo of Nora, captured just as

she looked up to see a falling leaf.

I love Wyatt's soulful, contemplative look here. I had just asked him, "Where did all these leaves come from, Wyatt?" he didn't answer for a while, then said, "Tree" in a quiet voice. The mood of the season.

I threw leaves in the air and took this shot at the same time. Nayelli was trying to catch the leaves in her

pumpkin.