viewed from a distance

Cloudy. The Green Mountains are breathtaking now as they have turned the color of an Indian Head penny, a lustrous bronze. It must be the color of the oaks viewed from a distance. Over in the Taconics, setting sun accentuating the bright yellows of the aspens near West Rutland. Migration of the Canada Geese is in full swing. Saw a flock of at least 50 high in the sky over Ira the other day. They made a very distant visual impression with the movement of their wings against a bright blue sky; almost like observing paramecium in a petri dish as viewed through a microscope. Four ducks silently highballing through the same air space along the Ira Creek, at a much lower elevation.