Trees dropping leaves in red-orange foliage

Mountain rains in flowing white foaming streams

Flowers dropping fading away to await springs blue skies

On tiny creeks skeeter skates on top of grey rocks

For the trouts dinner they do await

But the real sign of Winter's coming in the fall

Coho and King Salmon in trickling waters annually returning

Yesterdays hale early fall warning of the approaching cold winds

In a day mixed with a double sunlit rainbow of colors

Storm clouds bring on a raining night and thunder

In an inch or two of running water two Coho Salmon

Advanced scouts announcing the annual return of king and Coho

Over at Seattle's Pike street market tossing Salmon

For once again a miracle is happening in the great Northwest

Mother's, Fathers, tiny kids, Salmon have come to spawn and die

As the leaves fall in multicolored icy splender

Rejoice hundreds of returning Salmon come to Cottage lake Creek