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Too soon for snow?
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With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, who's ready for snow?
Too soon?
It's not too soon in the Pikes Peak Region!
On Sunday (which, admittedly, was before Labor Day, not after), Jim and I headed to the park bright and early for the annual Labor Day Lift Off hot-air balloon festival in Colorado Springs (which is where I captured these colorful shots in 2015). We set up our …
Read MoreAs the season slips away: 6 summery somethings I still want to do
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Kids are back in school. Pumpkin-flavored coffees pour forth from the coffee shops. Halloween candy and costumes line the shelves at the stores.
It seems fall has arrived full force despite the calendar still showing summer on the schedule.
As September 21 — the official final day of summer despite what the retailers profess — creeps closer, I'm mulling over the summer sorts of stuff I meant to do and didn't. A few stand out that I still want to do, still hope to do, before I can no longer...
From the archives: Four for fall
/Having blogged for more than seven years, I have oodles of goodies stored away in the Grandma's Briefs archive, goodies that rarely see the light of day because they go way, way back. At least seven years or so.
Today seems a perfect day to pull out some of those well-seasoned posts, a few of my favorite fall-themed features you just might have missed.
14 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT OCTOBER
My shortlisted October loves... in no particular order:
1. The sun has shifted south. Whereas summer...
Fall visits the desert
/My daughter Megan loves living in the desert. The only time she misses the seasons of Colorado is in the fall. Fall simply isn't the same where saguaros grow tall and javelinas roam wild.
Earlier this week Megan texted some pictures to Jim and me. The weather was uncharacteristically fall-like in the desert, she said, so she took Mac and Jak—while Bubby was in school—to...
