This has been an especially beautiful autumn in the Rockies. The weather has been sunny and the leaves are spectacular. The aspens have put on an extra-fine show and where the two mix, the contrast between the aspens’ yellow and the conifers’ dark green is amazing. The mountain maple are still doing their orange-to-red fall colors and the skies have been blue as can be.
Days have been getting up into the high 60s and low 70s and the nights dropping to freezing. We could have stayed in the high country another month, but appointments we’d made in NV would have been awkward to reschedule. So we left today and are en route to our winter place in NV.
Shutting down our summer home and packing the RV to make the trek south was exhausting. One of the lingering aftereffects of Covid is fatigue, of which I’ve had my share and then some. Of course, advancing age is a factor too.
In NV we have brand-new backyard landscaping upon which we’ve never laid eyes, though kind neighbors have sent pix and it looks great. High temps there are no longer in the 100s, more like low 90s and high 80s.
Wishing you all a Happy Halloween and a very thankful Thanksgiving. I hope the election results are to your liking as well.
