Red

IS the color of autumn. Today is equinox, as of 5:19 eastern standard time this afternoon and although the temperature felt anything but fall like, the scenery is done with summer attire. Fall it is. These lovely leaves were the outliers on a small maple in Baker's Meadow. Baker's Meadow is part the Indian Ridge loop - which has quickly become my new favorite local hike. Steve and I headed out for a woods walk (walks you take water, hikes you take water and snacks - so this was a mere walk) after he got home from work and I got in from all of my dental and medical errands. (I had a sinus graft done last winter to ready my upper jaw for a dental implant - and lo and behold the pain I've been feeling all weekend? It's the graft gone bad. Which is distressing, but hey, stuff happens. Unfortunately and this is the part that has me seeing the non-leafy red - I had been back to the periodontist who did the lift - and he basically blew me off about the area of concern my general dentist had seen weeks ago - and sent me back to the periodontist to get checked out. GRRRRRRRRR. So now, more pain, and more antibiotics.) I am fully aware of the irony of taking my first full day off in two weeks - only to spend it at the dentist, at the pharmacy, at the doctor, getting a blood draw and to make it perfect, getting my new fashionable bi-level mask. Woo hoo. Makes going back to work tomorrow an attractive propostion.

Equinox. Time of balance. Equal day. Equal night. Light and dark. Dark and light. But just for a moment - and then the balance is lost and night begins it's ascendancy over the year. But for those few seconds at a little after five, it was. . .perfectly balanced. Just for a moment. Perfect.