The view from our office window

Sitting at my computer this morning, I looked out the window and was struck anew at the beauty routinely available to us -- leaves ranging from green to gold to red, the river peeking through the trees, the sky a brilliant blue. In an otherwise still scene, a sudden shower of falling leaves betrays the scamper of a squirrel, fat and sassy already, prepared for a long sleep cradled in a nest of some of those same leaves.