Fall, Knitting Queue's and more...

Just had to take pictures of the trees this year. The colors are outstanding! The brighter yellow is due to the sun coming up. I loved how this looked in the early morning.

just another tree pic...

this tree has given us all the beautiful colors of fall.....

Christmas knitting has begun. A couple of completed projects.

My wonderfully warm and fashionable "Fair Isle" knee high socks. Can't wait to wear them...

Cashmere for the feet. Yum.

Any guesses?

Again.... any guesses?

The blue is really one of the darkest I've ever seen. Unfortunately the flash doesn't appreciate that fact.

A hat in the process. I still have to go buy more yarn.

Just what David loves to hear!

Started this last year and its sat quietly waiting for its turn. I wonder what it could be?

If is possible to have a "heathered" black this is it. This yarn is simply scrumptious to hold and feel on the skin. I have something in mind for all 3 of the hanks that I have of this.

Guess who came for a visit...

I just love Fall! Its always full of beauty and surprises.
Look who pulled into our driveway yesterday! TJ and Amanda! They are on their way to Great Fall's, MT and TJ's new post where they expect to be for the next 3 - 4 years. They were in D.C. for 4 years and now they get to start the moving around process. TJ graduated from the Academy in 2003. As an aside, Amanda and TJ will be celebrating their 2nd Anniversary this December. Congratulations!

Of course we had to take them to Garden of the Gods. Turns out that in all the years TJ was here he couldn't remember having ever been there either. So what a neat treat for us to get to play tour guides.



Of course we had to put them through the usual photo ops.

Jolie's Birthday, Bishop's Castle and more...

Jolie's now 9 years old. Wow! What a big girl.

Her choice of family birthday accoutrement was ice cream. So Neapolitan is was with little spiral candle's sticking out and melting the ice cream even faster! In the end we got them all lit and she did have two scoops still in the bowl.

She, also, got a new bike for her birthday. A lovely BMX trick bike. Hopefully she won't be doing any bike tricks anytime soon!

Both Olivia and Jolie are going to be having "friend" birthday parties in the next couple of weeks, so check back for pics of those.

David was out of town in the Boston area for a couple of days this week. So when he got back we headed south on the bikes for a nice ride with Jen and Bob. Bishop's Castle was the destination of choice for this ride. With our weather changing for the cooler temps it is possible that this was our last full day ride for the season. We put about 250 miles on the bikes and had beautiful weather and great roads to explore.

Jen and I in a very large chair.

This room reminds me of being in a cathedral of sorts.

David and Bob.

Yes, that is a dragon head...

No, I don't know if it shoots flames.

I hope not...

Stopping to video the Wet Mountains (Sangre de Cristo Mountains) after eating lunch in Silver Cliffe. Great little burger joint with really good burgers and desserts. Jen and I split a slice of homemade apple pie a la mode. Yum! David had blueberry pie and Bob got the cherry pie. No one left hungry...

We crested a ridge and this is what we saw. Just beautiful. I stopped to video this on the northwest side of Westcliffe, Co.