Yesterday (Monday), there was a bit of snow visible high on the mountains and barely visible through the cloud cover, but this evening! – this snow is low – maybe 4000 feet or even lower. My house sits at about 3300 feet.

It’s beautiful! Karl and I stood and called for the snow to “come hither”!

It is cold – that damp cold of fall and the rain/snow mix that chills to the bone and feels colder than it does in the dead of winter. But there is pure joy in getting cold to the bone when I see smoke from the chimney and think about the warm fire in the woodstove.

The color, the rain, the cold and the snow…harbingers of Winter, Karl’s and my favorite season.