That sounds rather beautiful Bill, we get dusty "whirly whirlies" here quite often, I was at a swap meet one day admiring someone's Esky (large drinks cooler) spinning around 50 feet up in the air. 
That sounds like an Aussieclydon, Terry! Quite a beefy dust devil, more like a Hoovercane lol.
I was out in my buddies woods in Petersburg, Mi one still, autumn day when all of a sudden, all the leaves on the ground lifted straight up above the trees (Oaks) and then settled back down.. rather eerie watching that...
Charlie
Wow! Did the leaves go straight up Charlie, or did they swirl around? If they just lifted straight up and settled straight down again, I think I'd probably sh1t myself. When I think about it, there are a lot of things that would probably make me sh1t myself.........
Yes they did, Terry! It was completely still right before it happened, maybe a breath of a breeze... And, as Bill said, they floated down rather lazily, with a bit of a swirl and float to them.
I've seen that phenom too, as a kid growing up and the leaves really didn't swirl until they started down. Fall here is a time for that and if you and you family have had a successful year, you scrounge a day or two, go wandering and pull the colours, smells and bird song of Autumn around your selves like a cloak.
Bill the demon.
Quite nice out there in the fall, Bill. We get some nice weather around here, but I enjoy upper Michigan in the fall, the Tunnel of Trees on Lake Michigan side is pretty cool on the bike!
My friend and I used to hunt fall mushrooms in his 35 acres of woods, as there are a great variety of edibles that time of the year. One of my favorites is the Maitake (dancing mushroom in Japanese), some call it the the Hen of the Woods, Cow's mouth, etc. But they grow at the base of Oak trees. We also gathered 'stumpies' clumps of mushrooms that grow on tree stumps. One early November, he thought he had found some, and took them back to the pole barn to cook them up for him and a couple friends, and about 30 minutes after they ate them, they felt a little 'different'.. so he got out the National Audubon Societies Guide to North American Mushrooms (good thing to have) and looked them up... turned out, they weren't 'stumpies' at all, but a variety of Gymnophylis called of course... the 'Big Laughing Gym'... which is mildly to moderately psychoactive, hehe... it was quite colorful for a few hours.
Thank goodness they weren't poisonous!
Charlie
