The view from Merom Bluff...

Yesterday we stopped at Merom Bluff to see what the Wabash River looked like from up there...as you can see it is full to the brim.
I spotted these two flowers while up there...and I don't know the name of either. I have seen the one below before but don't remember seeing the one above. With my memory, that is not saying much...I could have seen it and forgotten it.
If you know their name, feel free to chime in....I have did a little searching but no luck so far. Whatever they are, I think they are beautiful, specially the blue/purple one.

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Not sure what is going on with the collage...seems a bit strange here where I am composing this. I was afraid everyone might be getting tired of fall photos, yet I just could not stop till I posted these. I was going to post all of the ones in the collage separately, then thought maybe it would be better to post it as a collage. I am hoping it will enlarge big enough for you to get a feel for the photos used in it.
I could not post without including the wonderful sweet gum...I think it is my favorite of big trees--the leaves turn all colors. It just happened that I didn't take a picture featuring all the colors. A lot of them will have a range of color from bright yellow to a purple that is almost black...with every color in between.
Even so, aren't these all so glorious?
It is wintry feeling here in the Midwest today. I cannot get over just how much like winter the air feels. It isn't freezing cold, but it is cold. It is just the look of everything and the feel that is in the air.

My kitties tend to stay inside a bit more. And that is good for all concerned. Yesterday I was sitting in the living room and thought I saw a bird fly across the yard down low...and thought it was the size of a blackbird or robin, but I haven't been seeing any. I got up and looked out the window and didn't see anything.

So I went outside to have a better look, and it was Puss Puss aka The Princess with a little bitty bird. She took off like lightening with me right behind her...I chased her around to the back and got her cornered and she let go of the bird and it flew away. I did not get a good look, but was so afraid it was a wren.

I sometimes wish I didn't like cats so well, or that they would all be as lazy as my original Cougar was...he sure didn't spend much time hunting. But they are not. I still love them, though, and cannot imagine life without them. Every night, my new Cougar comes and cries and wants me to sit down and hold him for a while. It is so relaxing.

And heaven forbid I go in and find one on the bed of the day...I just have to lay down with it for a few minutes.

However, there are the times around 11:00 or midnight, when they are outside and come to the door. I get up to let whichever one it is in, and they turn around and go the other way. They are wanting me to come outside with them. Here about a month ago, Cougar did me that way at least half a dozen times....Roger was laughing at me. And him.

So, after Roger went to bed, Bubbie wanted out about the time Cougar was at the window again. So I let Bubbie out, and went outside talking to him and not paying Cougar any attention...I got close enough to Cougar that time and snatched him and brought him in.

And then there are the times it is raining, or supposed to rain and I am out searching the yard and surrounding area at midnight trying to get them all rounded up and inside. I call myself the cat herder...

Merom Bluff revisited....

Remember I wrote about going to Merom Bluff during the summer HERE? That time we were cloud chasing...
Yesterday it was just some place to go to that was farther south, and I thought there might be more fall color left there. And there was some...not a whole lot more but it was still worth the trip.
You can tell by looking in the distance as well as under these tress that most leaves are down. I do have more color from here to show you tomorrow. But first I thought I would show you the reason it is called Merom Bluff.
You can see the Wabash River way down below....and the land across it is Illinois.
And this is the road that leads down to the river. I would not want to lose my brakes on the way down, nor have to come up it when it was icy.
No matter, I still think it really beautiful.
These photos are all supposed to enlarge, so I hope you click on them to get the full effect.
I thought I would show you some of the rock formations or cliffs or whatever you want to call them.
And when you get to the bottom, there is a place to launch your boat into the Wabash River. This is looking upstream. I wonder just how far it would be to Terre Haute if going up the river instead of driving?