grim November

Both these photos were taken yesterday. Temps in the 40s and 30s. A few flurries in the morning. Dim all around.

Fred's autumn

Former FV conference director Fred Wasiak was back and took this photo during the Columbus Day weekend.

fall colors

Photographs taken earlier today.

gloomy hill

Taken yesterday, this photo shows "the Hill" (cabins 41-45 and 46-50). The leaves are gone, gone, gone. Mucky misty rain added to the gloom. Along the road (but not in camp) there were signs of earlier snowfall. And snow was in the forecast again for tomorrow.

If you click on the photo and stare at the larger version, you'll see three cabins in the vertical middle of the shot and to the left of center: at the far left, 46 and barely visible behind it, 47; then to the right of 46 is 45 and 44. To the right of a clump of yellow-brown leaves is 43, and then I can barely make out 42 further to the right. Of course when the leaves are on the trees you can't see any cabins from where I took the shot (on the road up the hill).

fall is time for fog & deer

This photo was taken from the living room window of Halbe & Jane Brown around 1999 or 2000. It was autumn. If that doe knew what was good for her, she'd have moved on, out of the main part of camp, for hunting season was just a few weeks away.

hints of autumn

Lately at night it's gotten down to 38 degrees. Word came from the farm (in the East Neversink valley) that they had a bit of frost. Yesterday I snapped three photos showing the first hints of fall colors. Autumn now? End of summer? No way. No way. No way. No way.

cold mid-September morning

This past Saturday morning, 6:45 am. I could barely hold the camera still, it was so surprisingly cold. Twenty minutes later, at the dining hall, I went to the weather station and saw that by then it had risen to 43 degrees. I suspect it had dipped into the 30s. Mid-September? Yikes.

It warmed into the upper 50s, and felt like 60 in the sun, on Sunday.

Notwithstanding the cold - or perhaps because of it - Lake Cole was just beautiful at sunrise. Of course the sun is rising behind me as I face west at the boathouse side of the lake. You could see the mist move upward and westward.

As I walked into breakfast I saw two summer '07 VCs - the mighty & supertalented Jay, VC of Mac Boys, and Adele, VC of Lakota. They were bundled and looked ready for the autumn to come in earnest, hardly seeming the T-shirted and be-shorted running-like-crazy leaders from the summer. They were headed out for a day off, having worked all week with several school groups visiting for Environmental Education programs.