every year comes a day
when there's such thing yes
as summer's end,
as fall coming this way. This morning,

the smell of autumn was in the august air...
it was in the morning this morning
riding the breezes.
Hotter than heck by mid-afternoon. I was in

Lafayette last week. I read a message
on a postage stamp:
'Let Nature Do the Work'
Today there was a fragrance; leaves

changing their minds; birds
finding insulated niches within the trees,
making love to the sky
from the highest branches

(photo taken 7-29-12 in Huntsville, Alabama)