Adjustment Often Necessary......

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.....

To front only the essential facts of life.....

And see if I could not learn what it had to teach....

And not, when I came to die,

Discover that I had not lived"

Thoreau

- Economy a bit distracting, even depressing? World problems creating alarm? Concerned that America now is not America back when? Social issues allowed to enter your core and effect daily activities? Back to basics and a few things we can count on......

- September moon is currently 81% illuminated....Waxing Gibbous

- At our latitude, today, September 18, the 'day' will be 12 hours and 17 minutes....visible light is 13 hours and 8 minutes

- Tomorrow's 'visible light' will be 2 minutes and 12 seconds less

- If your location has a latitude north of Dunlap, you will lose a bit more 'light' per day

- If your location has a latitude south of Dunlap, you will lose a bit less 'light' per day

- Normal high/low temperature for today is 82/62.....77/57 on the Cumberland Plateau

- Early morning and late afternoon hikes can be invigorating this time of year....warm but the humidity has been very low recently....with levels most days staying in the 25%-40% range....

Autumn is near.....Photos......Top to bottom....

- Taken off Picnic Rock (within our residential developments) yesterday afternoon.....hikes are even more uplifting if the destination is similar to the rock from which this photo was taken.....

- Signs of change.....the Blackgums are beginning to show their customary red/burgundy coloration as the chlorphyll begins to fade and eventually die....

- The Tuliptree also showing signs of change....typically this species is the first to show yellow pigmentation in the fall....

- A female Red-Headed Woodpecker on the trunk of a Northern Red Oak....

- A Killdeer walking along the shoreline of a mountain lake....

- Another whitetail fawn....spots are still evident on this one, but they will not last much longer.....