Gorgeous fall has arrived

Fall color has arrived! Every year it's different but equally spectacular. The leaf watchers are showing up too, very easy to tell by their erratic driving, parking in the middle of the road, and lenses hanging out car windows. Caution is needed...

Lots of fall preparation for winter in the animal world. Our late white yarrow wildflowers have been very popular with the chipmunks, birds, and deer (well Flap anyway). Small mounds of dirt have been appearing everywhere overnight. Our small creatures are digging down deep for their winter tunnel homes. I think literally we have an entire city of small critters under and around our house. If they don't bother us we won't disturb them. My flower pots on the deck look better than they have in months, really because our ground squirrel friends have gone away. It's very predictable but we don't know the reason why. Chippies stay and ground squirrels go-early.

Whetstone - looks like snow but not yet- just clouds

Photos from my walk this morning. You can see we're almost but not quite there to prime color. It moves at supersonic speed from here on. We've had 3 nights in a row at freezing temps although the day highs are quite lovely at mid 60's.

Got there as it was opening - get the best stuff that way

I did make it to the CB farmer's market to stock up on heirloom tomatoes, farm eggs, and veggies. Only two more Sundays before they're done for the season. Early ski season passes are on sale, can't believe this will be a snowy wonderland before you know it.

So this was last night. It's hard to photograph rainbows, something about how light travels, but hopefully you can tell this is a double one. A tiny bit of rain and then boom magic rainbows off the deck.

Quite excited as Mark comes back Saturday as well as a visit from Paul and Sherry. Tiffany comes in on the tail end of Paul and Sherry's visit for a solo visit. Anticipating a lot of fun with all.