Autumn View of Emmet County Michigan

I took this last year in mid-October from a high road overlooking a valley.

This year we will miss autumn in Northern Michigan for the first year in a long time.

I had come to rely on its beauty.

Here is one of my favorite haiku by my dear friend, Carol Steele.

fluting the pie crust

my mother's hands---no my hands

autumn approaches

Carol Steele

from

Dreams of Slow Mice;

the 2004 Anthology

of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society;

edited by Anne Homan

and Patricia J.Machmiller