Fridays are extremely busy these days at BearDog Consulting. The mega-project involves a lot of meetings and Friday has a standing one. We – the programming team – usually find ourselves coding madly up until the last minute, then the meeting and then we laugh, make our notes for the coming week and wish each other well for the week end.

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. I am blessed to work with two other people who are both professional and personable, good humored, decent, caring, family people who I feel priviledged to both know and work with. They work as many or more hours as I and have spouses and 4 children each. We are located in Los Angeles, Kalispell and Nashville – hoo rah 21st Century.

Today, we finished at just after 5:00 p.m. my time which is 4:00 in Los Angeles and 6:00 in Nashville. We started early this morning. And Los Angeles has twins, who turned 11 today AND have THE flu.

It poured rain all afternoon. As often happens during times of intense work periods, I was not really aware and also not aware that the temperature in the house had dropped. I finished the work day a bit chilled. Karl had been inside most of the day. We both needed to be outside. Starting a fire in the woodstove and collapsing in front of it sounded like the best idea, but instead I donned raingear and then convinced Karl to get out and into the Jeep. Off we went to Wayfarer’s by the lake for a walk.

And I didn’t take the camera. It was pouring and gray… But as I drove down “the Road Home” – there was light to the West. I should have gone back for the camera… Despite the rain and gloom – the larch, the dying leaves of Aspen, Birch and Cottonwood – all of the colors of Fall – they were there. And there was a beautiful, western light.

It is a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but today, not taking the camera, regrets.

Above – Flathead Lake – from my phone.