Autumn in Garden Valley

     Moderate weather predominates
     blessed with light breeze
     Grasses and tree limbs sway
     as waves on the seas

     Apples are ripening
     so too the prune plum
     Oak leaves and their acorns
     dropping by the scores, drum

     Geese overhead piping
     seen flying in V's
     Turkeys still milling about
     as are quail in their covies

     Hunting season open
     eager hunters oft found
     albeit more... seemingly,
     than the deer abound

     : Bobby Nichols 9/28/2003