Mushrooms

 

Here is another of the Captain's splendid fungi fotos.  The creation is amazing.

The Captain and I have been watching a series called .  "The Code of a Killer"  It is about the first case in the UK to be solved by the use of DNA identification.  It is a story of brilliant and patient police work, getting the murderer of two young teenage girls behind bars - and before he killed anyone else.  

However, the killer in question has just been released by the Parole Board - after serving the two "life sentences" he was given.  It is troubling after all the effort the Police took to get him safely locked away.  And I can only imagine what the families of the murdered girls think about it.  

It wasn't a calming thing to watch before bedtime, but I am not sleeping well at the moment anyway.

Captain B appeared on screen during our field service meeting on Tuesday, Much to my chagrin he was hanging out the washing in an ostentatious and martyred kind of way.  He waved a sock at us, but mercifully confined himself to one sock.

As Autumn progresses with its bright low sunshine and its stormy seas, I have been thinking about the way the earliest calendars begin in the Fall, which suggests that Adam first opened his eyes in an Autumn garden.  It was a garden that was the very perfection of Autumn.  It was paradise.  Maybe that is why Autumn has a beautiful sadness about it?   But even though that original paradise was lost, we are assured by our Creator that it will be restored, earthwide.  

What else are we praying for when we say the Lord's prayer and ask for God's Kingdom to come, and for his will to be done on the earth?

I have been looking up poems for Autumn. And here is one:

Autumn Fires

by Robert Louis Stevenson

"In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!"

https://www.thoughtco.com/autumn-poems-4145041