Chilling in CO

We're starting to hit autumn up here. The aspens started turning about a week and a half ago, yellow over on the mountains on the west, although off east they're still all green. A few to the south are turning too, some a surprisingly vibrant orange. But for the most part they've still got a ways to go.

We've also been getting frost pretty regularly in the mornings, about since the trees started, which was just after having rain every afternoon for the previous four or five days. The frost is real pretty in the mornings, white all over the pasture down by the barn, and usually a horse out sniffing around, looks real picturesque. But it also means it's cold, which isn't so much fun when you're working breakfast and cleaning last nights coffee and wine out of the rec hall and are just wearing your La Garita staff short-sleeved polo shirt because you left your long-sleeved wool shirt in the staff dining room because by the time it gets to be afternooon you don't need it and you forget it.

It is definitely getting noticeably chillier as the days go on, although still very pleasant. It's kind of funny, we're at about 8800 ft. and the air's thin enough up here that the sun seems to have a much greater influence on temperature. The other day I decided to go out and read and take a nap on the lawn chair out behind the boys' dorm. The wind was kicking about some, maybe a gentle or moderate breeze, and the air wasn't all that warm, so took the blankets off my bed, pulled the chair into the sun, and then wrapped up and the sun kept me plenty warm until later in the afternoon, when I woke up and was shaded by this big tree, and it was a lot colder.

I'll probably be heading further south, and to lower elevation, by the time I'm done. Winter is not conducive to travelling light, if it's conducive to travelling at all. But more on all that, and other stuff later. Public computers...