The dog, cautiously mistrusts that whirlwind of leaves:   Woof_! Woof_!   
__ Then, of course, there is that connection of leaves... to the trees' >barks< then perhaps, the dog's >barks< ?

fallen leaves
new swirls at every glance
the dog barks

Nature changes "althings", always; or should it be, "all things, all ways"?  Smiles! _m

old sun
alights this pathway
new day

__ This echo is today's comment I entered at  Zen Speug, John's good blog.  Often the idea-crumbs we leave... feed someone else's thought. _m

walks along
this path of fallen crumbs
pigeons glean

__ Season's caring interest as we remember, and review the colors within our earthly clock.

yellow ferns
as red leaves drift within
greens pine

__ This feeling, was posted on October 3rd, seven years ago today. The only change, is the total of those valued years! _m

38 years... today, Happy Anniversary Kathy!
__ One morning, many, many years ago now, I stepped out of bed...
immediately Kathy rolled into that newly vacant spot. I asked "are you 
cold?" Without opening her eyes, Kathy simply said,  "No, it just smells
like you."  That moment, never forgotten. 

each morning
her new day's gift
that smile