Farewell to Fall

This year the autumn colors have been particularly lovely, and the weather has been too. It's not every year that the descent in temperatures, marking the change from summer to fall, is as gradual as it's been this year. Sometimes it feels like we're lucky to get two weeks of autumn and then *boom* it's winter. So, I tried to savor it this year.

If I can catch it in time (and the weather cooperates), I always like to go out into the woods to really enjoy the changing leaves. This year we got out there right at peak colors and the weather was perfect.

Hiking with kids is always an adventure. The grownups just want to walk and look at trees, but the kids stop and draw in the dirt, stop and climb on the logs, stop to complain about how far they've walked..

Among all the pictures of the beautiful pictures of trees, I got lots of candids  of my favorite subjects..

On one of the stops, I noticed that the trees behind where the kids were sitting would be a great backdrop. I thought it might be great for updating our family picture wall (the ones up there now are over two years old). So, I attempted to get them to hold still and smile..

Close enough.. On they wall they go!

It was good that we went out the weekend we did, not a week later we got snow!

Ah well, all things must end, even lovely and beautiful autumns.