skipper-aster-sept-21-2008-11Happy Fall Equinox!  Today is that fall day, also known as the Autumnal Equinox,  when the hours of daylight equal the hours of night.

It is also a day that highlights the changing seasons. This is a nice time to start watching for the changing leaf colors, migratory birds passing through, summer residents heading south, squirrels and others gathering nuts for winter.

Something fun to do today is to take your camera and go to a nature spot that you really enjoy. Pick a nice vantage point that you’ll remember again in a few months and take a photo – it could be a landscape picture or a photo of a tree or some other element of nature (as long as it’s stationary :) ). 

I’ll do a blog post on the winter solstice, spring equinox and summer solstice so you can keep this going through the year as a nature photo journal and have a nice set of pictures of nature through the seasons. When you go out to your spot, take notes on what you see, what you hear and what you smell. Every season has its special gifts.