autumnal thoughts

I do enjoy autumn, and this year we have certainly oohed and ahhed at the vast array of colours that seem to be everywhere. The mountains here yield such a variety, I can see why people travel down this way to see the annual changing of the leaves. When I go to work in the morning, there is this little bend in the road about a mile and a half from the museum. As you are coming around that bend, and down the hill, the mountain looms over you in a truly majestic fashion. With the speckling of reds and oranges this time of year, that is the thing I look forward to each morning on my way to work. On these recent greyish misty days, with the fog rolling over patches of the mountain, it has such a haunting look about it. I want desperately to take a picture, but driving down a hill and around a bend while taking a picture might be a tad dangerous. So I will need to skip that I suppose.

Things are slowing down a bit as far as visitors/bus groups. Which is good for those of us who talk themselves into oblivion and have very little voice left by the end of the day. Now is the time to delve into more research and various other projects in and around the office. The big event next on the agenda is the Yuletide Celebrations/Dinners, but we still have over a month to go before dealing with that. Today will be busy; we have several busses booked all day long. Thankfully I am working from home tomorrow and can be somewhat of a hermit.

This Saturday is a "fun day" for the state's Jack Russell Terrier Club. It is a local event, well about twenty five minutes from here, so seeing how the weather holds out and how bad Clare's current sinus stuff becomes, will determine our presence there. The dogs would love it. If we do go, I plan to enter Aoife into the flat racing and enter Reilly into the go-to-ground competition.

Other than that, we are enjoying autumn thus far. The weather has been crisp and cool, some grey skies but I won't complain. We get enough sun and heat in the summertime. Clare is looking forward to trick-or-treating Sunday. I think we are going to take her over to the University where the Professors reside. It is safe there and everything is close proximity, which would require less walking back and forth. She has decided to be an 18th century Pirate Queen. How she derived at that, I don't know, but she intends on wearing her 18th century clothing and carrying various pirate-type accoutrements. Speaking of Clare and the 18th century, she went back to work with me on Tuesday after school, and actually helped with the group we had. She was brilliant. And of course, I took a photo!