Autumn Ponds, Woods and a Turtle!

Although all the leaves have fallen here already,

I still have some pictures of our autumn

that I haven't shared with you yet.

I guess I just didn't want to give up the season's marvelous fall color

so I took about a zillion photos of it.

Lakes, roads and little ponds that are full of the yellows, golds and oranges

of the season are the ones that always capture my heart.

This is the left shoreline of a little lake up here called "King Lake":

This was one of my favorite ponds. It sits just over a knoll beside the highway on the way to a town called "L'Anse":

You can see why I loved it. Full of reflection of the trees, both dead and alive:

I loved the old floating dead logs in this pond, which was out in the middle of nowhere

in the woods:

We always look for ducks or geese on these ponds and often see them..but none were there the day we shot these pictures:

One morning I couldn't sleep and got up and outside for sunrise.

This is down on our Lake Michigamme beside our pontoon that morning:

I was surprised to see a turtle on a log on one of the ponds this late in the year.

If you look close, you'll see a leaf on his back~:

(I loved that gnarly piece of wood the turtle is on, too. Don't you?)

And, of course, I couldn't NOT take another winding  fall road....this time in a yellow wood:



I hope today, that you find something to enjoy

that fascinates you

and pleases you

and makes you smile

like I did that day....