The first signs of autumn at the Sagiike-pond

When people were exhausted and worried how long the unrelentless summer heat

would last, cool and crisp air arrived right on the Autumn Equinox suddenly.

We felt revived for a short while.

Now that it's October, however, we are still experiencing nearly 30 degrees C in the daytime.

These images are from the Sagi-ike Pond, Nara Park, on a cloudy weekend morning. 

At this time of year, I feel autumn in the air and in the colors of pond.

Algae have made the pond colors much greener. 

Are drones flying over in formation?

Water-striders were busy skating across the pond.
Their figures with their reflections looked like drones.  

Yellows in the pond reflection are suggestive of a little coloring leaves.

Sakura leaves have started changing colors.

Crape myrtles were still lingering.

Weathered fallen leaves and reflected trees play together to make a painting 

on the water canvas.

So peaceful and quiet in the cool morning air.

Extreme weather has become norm: the deadliest hurricanes in the US, 

the devastating floods in Europe and Asia, to name a few.

Small 23 rivers were overflooded in Noto-peninsula which has not recovered 

from the catastrophic earthquake of January.

Though helpless in the huge energy of nature, even tiny bit effort in any form 

can cause huge positive impacts on climate-change.

Each of us is a part of nature as well as a part of this historic urgent challenge.

Linked to Mosaic Monday