Summer to fall and back again

Hopefully with the onset of fall, I will have returned from my summer of spotty blogging to a little more regular posting. Now that we've just returned from our annual pilgrimage to the midwest, I guess it's truly time to take down the mental "On vacation" sign and move into the focused and productive cooler months I also so love.


These pictures from the first weekend of September are indicative of what our end of summer/early fall has been like. A morning can start with a winter coat and hot chocolate, and end in a day warm enough for a swim in the river. One moment I'm ready to fire up the oven and bring out the soup pot, the next it's all I can do not to just spend the day in a vegetative state on the couch, hoping to escape the 100 degree temps if I just don't move at all. But I've enjoyed September, with all it's weather oddities, to just appreciate what there is to like about all conditions. We'll see what October brings!