I checked the local webcams this morning and there is snow accumulating on the Tetons! It won't be long before it sends the elk down to their winter feeding grounds in Jackson and the grizzly bears into hibernation. The fall colors are really starting to show themselves, and it's so beautiful out there right now! …
Now that fall is officially here it means I can stop worrying about the veggies and the flowers and start focusing on more important things, like getting myself in shape for the upcoming winter. I don't know how I managed it, but I gained almost 25 extra pounds over the summer despite being pretty active …
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanesAnd roofs of villages, on woodland crestsAnd their aerial neighborhoods of nestsDeserted, on the curtained window-panesOf rooms where children sleep, on country lanesAnd harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!All things are symbols: the external …
It's so sad to watch my beautiful pumpkin vines shrivel up and wither away, but it is fall now (well, almost) so, yeah. It was bound to happen, right? I just wish all of our pumpkins had ripened before now. We did manage to harvest quite a few though; some ripe and some not-so-ripe. I …
Am I the only one who noticed that there suddenly seems to be names for the full moon that I've never heard before? There's the Worm Moon and the Sturgeon Moon and the Super Bloody Pink Strawberry Wolf Moon (or something like that). There are so many names thrown out there. Why? Well, I learned there …
