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...I mean, like---off camping. Seven days to capture the last days of summer and maybe plan for the winter. I was thinking to myself it would be great to meet up with some Camping Babblers and just sit around the campfire and babble.

...but then---we don't talk to each other much.

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Sorry ND, not much brewing here. Have a great trip. Maybe things will pick up here.

 

What can I say?

It rained - providing uninterrupted reading and contemplation.
It was *cold - providing an opportunity to sleep soundly,
with only the rain tapping a rhythmic tune on the tent walls.
It was *autumn dark - providing a shroud for meditative prayer.
This was the ambience that surrounded my retreat.​

* Cold - one evening it dropped to 3 degrees [about 37 American].
* Autumn Dark - The sun set at 7:05 PM and didn't get up in the morning until 7:14 AM.

Did I enjoy myself?
I did actually.
A friend stayed for two days and we talked into the wee hours of the morning.
He brought steak and wine for the occasion.
I was taken back by the quick and sudden change in the colour of the leaves.
I'm privileged as I am blessed.




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Wow fall colors. Our trees are still green except for the ones that just gave up and turned brown. love the pictures.

 

-----> I was taken back by the maturity of the colours; in the area that I live they are beginning to change, but a lot more slowly. My experience in the past tells me that come next week we will see a significant change. Next Monday, in this neck of the woods, is Harvest Thanksgiving which is a national holiday. I wonder how many people will be saying thank you for the abundant harvest?

Anyway - I have a weekender on November 1st [actually I'll be instructing a course program] and then on the weekend of November 22nd, I'll be out in the heart of the fall season breathing in some of that frosty air.