Sunset Textures

 

The Day Before The Wind Came

 

Fall Storm Moon

 

Autumn Drive

 

Forest Skylight

 

Fungus Festival

 

Orange Vista

Happy Camper, October 31

 

Johnson's Sauk Trail Park is a little gem of a state park near Kewanee, Illinois.  This deer has it all to himself now that the summer campers have been shooed away.  The lakeshore road closes for six long months on November 1, so we went over for a beautiful farewell drive on Oct. 31.  Alas, this year the park superintendent padlocked it a day early!  Perhaps he wanted an early start to his long winter's nap.  So possession has been returned to the wildlife now, and doubtless they are glad to see us go.

Changes Coming

 

First Splendor of Fall

 

 

 

 

 

The Troll In The Tree

 

The troll face peeking from the tree stump is by beloved Swedish artist and illustrator John Bauer.  Born in 1882, the third of four children, Bauer left home at 16 for Stockholm, studying classical art at the Royal Academy of Art.  In 1904, he was commissioned to do a book about Lappland and spent a summer following the Sami reindeer herders on their migrations.

Later he lived in southern Italy for two years and was struck by the beauty of 14th Century art and artifacts.  His most famous work, the illustrations to the first of eight volumes of Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), a collection of fairy tales written by Swedish authors, was published in 1907.  It was hugely successful.

(information from https://www.artpassions.net/bauer/bauer.html)

 

Wide Welcome

 

Deep Woods Bouquet

 

Golden Treasure

 

Bug's Eye View

 

The Height of Summer

 

Bright Fresh Morning

 

Summer Idyll

 

Quatrefoil

 

Woodland Finds