Scattered Thoughts . . .

This past weekend...  a holiday weekend with an absurd amount of traffic and gridlock due to leaf peeping tourism...  we made our annual trek to The Christmas Loft with Lukey and Kenzie.  We headed northward earlier than most people were out and about so, for the most part, we stayed ahead of the crowds.   The scenery was typical autumn scenery...  like we are in an artificial Willy Wonka world of funky, overly fiery assortments of brightly saturated colors that appear more like infrared photography or false-color photography or someone's nightmare than real life.  To be honest, I prefer the late spring season for more awe-inspiring scenery.  Autumn looks a bit too wildly psychedelic   for me  (should be more appropriately spelled " psycho -delic" if you ask me).  Springtime after everything begins to bloom looks more natural and colorful.  Springtime colors are in distinct shades of light green to dark green with pastel shades of reds, oranges and yellows, complemented

We had the grandkids again this past Sunday while Liza dealt with last minute arrangements for her wedding this coming weekend. It's nice to be getting back into our normal routine! The kids arrived at our house thinking we were going on some sort of "field trip". We explained that while field trips are a nice break from school that are related to school, we're not going on a field trip... we're going on a winter adventure! Since Lukey arrived in only some sweat pants, a tee shirt and a lightweight fleece while it was snowing outside, I decided to tease them a bit by asking if Lukey thought he was coming to our house just to go to bed. He didn't have much of a response so I continued, saying that our adventure will take us to some snowy mountaintop... they immediately thought we were going to the lake house and that we were going to climb Owl's Head Mountain again... I asked Lukey why he wasn't dressed for our winter adventure but, again, he didn&#