Gold leaves in the air

Wind, wind, wind has been the word for the last few days. It's blown off the majority of the leaves and many of us are scrambling to do winter prep things. Lowest temps coming so far - supposed to be 20 degrees tonight - ooh. So outside water needs to be turned off, hoses unscrewed, and those crazy hanging baskets are done tonight, I'm pretty sure. New ones next summer!

Went to Gunnison to celebrate a birthday (Steve) and say goodby for the season to good friends. Steve and Gail are going back to their other home and we won't see them until May. 5 months went by in a flash. New restaurant ( for the four of us anyway, it's been open awhile) Twisted Fork. American Asian Fusion is what they call the cuisine. Big success as we shared the food and liked it all. We'll be back...

I took this photo on my morning walk 4 days ago and it was blown away the next morning. Gotta be quick on the camera trigger finger around here.

So this is our cabin (well half of it anyway). Anyone want to stay there when we're too full up? Really, its so sad all the old mining cabins at Star Mt., aka Baldwin, are disintegrating all around us. We didn't know half this cabin was on our property until this year - we might have tried to do something to shore it up before now.

Like snow but gold leaves instead

We have company coming, our friend Marci flies in for a few days. It'll be fun, but a tad chilly. Hope she's ready!

Ohio Creek

deer are still around but not for long

Finished two more books: Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell, which was okay, not my style - surprising really as it was British country life in the 1930's, and Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters, always entertaining archeological mystery stories.
Fishing report:  Mark's been out a couple of times with good luck on the Gunnison the first time, not so much the second. Water very low, and the Taylor to be "turned down" one more time for winter. Everyone's hoping for big snow, or at least normal snowfall this winter. Is there a snow dance to do?