An autumnal equinox to remember!

Sometime last week I googled "first day of autumn" to see on which day it fell this year.  And I was surprised!  First day of fall on the 23rd?  That's rather unusual, isn't it?  Shouldn't it be the 21st or 22nd?  And then I mentioned it to a few people, including our neighbor in 4th grade.  And I still didn't think it was right and wondered if I was leading him astray.  But then today, there is was on Google's search screen--Google was celebrating the day with an animated logo.

And we've had the most beautiful days of the whole summer in the last few days.  Perfect temps, not a cloud in the sky, perfect fall days.  So here are a couple pictures of fall around the farm:

 The leaves changing colors is really just starting.  This next weekend should be really colorful, and on into October.   So now the maples really show themselves in among the pines and apple trees.

And it's probably because of all the rain we've had, but there's such a variety of mushrooms, including these little orange ones.

And check out this sunflower stalk!  That's about 10 sunflowers on one stem!

 And another one.  We'd better get those heads off, at least the big ones, and put them out for the birds.

And for the first time in many years, the apple crop is CRAZY!  Even the wild ones up in the meadow are good this year.  It must have been a perfect combination of weather and...weather!  There's no other explanation. 

And this has nothing to do with fall, but a result of moving the old house off the foundation.  The power to our little maple sugar shack, and to the old garage in the background, all came through the old house.  So when power was cut to move the house, we had to reconnect those buildings to our new power box.  And that involved trenching to lay wire to those two buildings.  And that leaves us with more grass to grow.  We almost had all the bare patches growing nice grass, and now we start again.

Since he trenched through the site where the barn used to be, he also dug up a bunch of old rocks from the barn foundation.  That field stone just isn't very pretty.  Our excavator was pretty insistent that we needed to collect those rocks for some other project.  Since he was the one who did our rock work for our garden in front of our house, we took his advice and here are our new rocks to put to use somewhere.

Happy Equinox to all!