Thanksgiving Weekend

To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

(Just a little piece of Keats's amazing poem about this beautiful season.)

We've been enjoying the fall. Each beautiful day is so precious because we know what's coming (and unlike Daniel, most of us aren't that excited about it).

Some fall stuff follows:

Maggie's first violin concert at CJH.



It brought back memories of Tyler's days in the orchestra.















Scott and I had so much fun taking the dogs up in the foothills above Centerville yesterday.



Those dogs are the most willing hiking companions. You never have to ask them twice.

See the picture below to get a sense of the cheerful additude we got when we made Daniel and Maggie go along on the hike today.



We actually had a great time. Daniel's smiling on the inside.



Halloween. Maggie and her friend McKenna--with their best 80s look going. McKenna's mom made Maggie's bangs look...actually a lot like the bangs I had circa 1986.



I know, I know, another blog post ending with Scott sitting in front of the fire. But this actually was a pretty cool fire. Scott's idea, Halloween night, a big fire on the driveway and corn dogs and apple juice for the trick or treaters. We sat out there for about three hours and had a great time.