rain above millpond dam

It was raining steadily when I got up, so I held off walking in the morning and tried to catch up on a bundle of writing projects. The storminess was certainly welcome, but in the afternoon, still-wet weather notwithstanding, I genuinely needed to get outside, so, waterproof Fuji in hand, I lit out for the millpond. I was hoping to capture some shots of the very last of the fall foliage in its pastel glory, but most of the leaves were now pretty much colorless, their Jack Frost pigments leached out by the precipitation and a stay in the water. Soon enough, the aquatic recycling squad—from invertebrates to bacteria—will get down to essential business and make every sign of leaf litter disappear. All those liberated plant molecules will then be ready to report for duty next growing season.