I've written that here in the high country, summers are short. Normally autumn begins Labor Day weekend. We drove the Snake River canyon highway to Jackson yesterday and sure enough saw the first few trees that had lost their green. These few had turned an orangey red.
So far the aspens haven't gone pale yellow, nor the mountain maples a bluish red. That will come in the next couple of weeks. The contrast with the dark green firs is amazing.
It will soon be too cool to eat supper on our screened back porch with the forest view Not yet, but another milestone indicating the time to pack the truck and go approaches.
It's time to start a twice-a-year ritual we call "eating the freezer down." Now that we no longer have an RV transporting frozen food isn't practical. We try to stop buying food and eat what's already on hand.
Like us, they migrate. More than a few geese spend their winter on the golf courses of southern Nevada near our winter place, eating the green grass and driving golfers nuts.
