October..

..shadows are getting longer..

..the race for the presidency is escalating - and the color of the
Washington canopy above is gradually changing..

..the insects are racing too..

..preparing for hibernation?

..and the seeds of the plants are prepared to take off for fields further away..
So am I. I am now looking for flights to California. I long to go back to San Francisco where I lived once. Around 40 years ago.To see what it is like today. To see if my house on Russell street in Berkeley is still there. And the roses I planted in the garden.The Peace rose. I lived there during the days of Peace and Love; in the true hippie era. The era of the Viet Nam war, of student protests, of grooving in Golden Gate Park, of police brutality, of the Black Panters, of Haight-Ashbury days and of concerts with Janis Joplin..
A nostalgic trip in October when the shadows are getting longer and our days increasingly shorter..