Michaelmas

 The saying goes:

“Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day,

Want not for money all the year”.

We have a friend who cooks up a goose every year for the Feast of Michael.  This year, instead of holding a party to share in this, our friend prepared the goose and, with K, delivered it to what friends they could.  So for dinner tonight we all got to have some goose.  Some of my other happy things have to do with bugs...

• It was a good day at work.
• There was a sweet fragrance as I walked under some maple trees.  At first I thought it was from the ice cream shop almost a quarter mile away.  Once I was no longer under the trees the fragrance was gone.  So I can't be sure it was the trees, it did seem it.
• Just in time I managed to not squish a stick insect.
• I wasn't going to walk on the property this afternoon.  I had things I wanted to get done and could get my steps in faster on the sidewalk.  I'm so glad I changed my mind.  There are some still shots below and here is a link to the monarch polinating the purple asters.  The insect wouldn't hold still and pose at first, which is why there is video.  
• There were bees to take pictures of too.
• Leaves are falling and everything is changing daily.
• The warm breeze held fresh moisture in it today.

It could have rained this afternoon so the Canon camera didn't go on the walk with me.  This was the right choice and I am okay with that.

Stick Bug.

There is an orange blur that is the butterfly near the right top corner.

Monarch.

Monarch.

Bee.

Foliage.

I feel like there is a picture from a month or so ago that also
had a clear round area sort of over the house...

Maple trees.  They weren't fragant in this direction,
they were on the way back up the street.

Plague shirt modeled by K.

☮

Keep your distance.