Fall!

It's fully October now.  

10 year old in his natural position.

My son has had his birthday (we're still in Birthday Week at our house.)  The days have a chill at the  beginning and end, the trees are starting to turn.

Yesterday between his classes and soccer practice, Pete and I did a short hike through a local nature preserve.

Not a lot of colored leaves yet, but lots of  varieties of what I generically call "crab apples."  Pete wanted to make sure he got pictures of them.

Soccer practice started out fairly warm, but by the end the sun was fully down and I was really chilly. Course I was the parent standing on the sidelines watching, not one of the kids running around on the field working up a sweat!

This morning as I waited for the bus, I watched the river and saw the bit of remaining fog on the river.  I realized I do have one of the more photogenic bus stops in the city.