Poe Paddy Beach in November

Today was one of those rare, sunny sixty-something degree November days that you absolutely do not want to waste being cooped up indoors because you are acutely aware that very soon Winter will descend on your sleepy little town and do its best to transform sunshine and warm temperatures into a fading, distant memory. So, when my mother suggested taking a drive over the mountain to take a peek at Poe Paddy State Park, I was more than happy to oblige.
While this scene was probably a bit more glamorous before all of the trees dropped their foliage, I think it is still very nice and pretty darn cool to be out walking the beach in the mountains of Pennsylvania on a balmy November afternoon.

"Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!

One mellow smile through the soft vapory air,

Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds run,

Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare.

One smile on the brown hills and naked trees,

And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast,

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze,

Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

Yet a few sunny days, in which the bee

Shall murmur by the hedge that skirts the way,

The cricket chirp upon the russet lea,

And man delight to linger in thy ray.

Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bearThe piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air."
~ William Cullen Bryant, Autum