It took less than a week to wash a summer’s worth of smoke and dust out of the Central Oregon air. It’s been cloudy and wet, which means road trips were shorter and closer to home.
It got cold enough to breakout beanies and gloves, layer up and dig out the rain coats. With stormfronts there are always gusty winds that add to the bite of Fall temps.
We went to a favorite spot, Sunriver Nature Center, to check on our favorite river otters, swans, and water fowl.
The beauty of this place is there are literally miles of walking paths, most of them paved. We did venture a bit away from the pond and out along the airfield and horse pasture.
We were working out kinks in a new iPhone camera rig and trying to give Tip a chance to stretch his legs as well. The migration season is in full swing, but there were just a few flights of geese and ducks. I suspect most of them are year round inhabitants of the pond.
This week the house got a seasonal cleaning, the idea is next week’s road trips will be a bit farther afield. We’ve made the shift to cold weather gear and restocked cocoa and a flask of whiskey in the picnic bag. Now is the time to get in those last fall excursions before the winter snows set in.