Normally in the Denver area we enjoy cool weather at this time of year. Not this:

(Image courtesy of 9 News.)

In keeping with the title’s keen observation of what month it is right now, I’d like to give you a few equally keen fall pictures. You saw the back of the house earlier in the week, so here’s the front in all its autumnal glory:

That nice, big maple drops its leaves in a hurry. (Is it a maple? I don’t know my trees at all.) The picture is two days old, and already the tree is a lot more sparse. This, of course, means that a fresh, crinkly, autumn-smelling pile of leaves forms in a hurry, to the delight of my children and others who walk past the house on the way to school. More than once my wife and I have caught a neighborhood boy walking past the pile at 7:50 in the morning, looking furtively around to see if he’s being watched, and taking a running jump into it. Don’t tell my homeowner’s carrier.

The upside of this is that I don’t have to do a lot of raking for this tree. (The back yard and the neighbor’s sickly aspens are another matter.) Here are the girls hard at work:

Finally, here’s a shot my wife took of the kids in the front yard. (It’s composed better than my pictures.)

Forgive the banality of the post, but like I said, it’s October! Best show some proof of it, since locals sure wouldn’t know from the weather.

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• Posted by Tim on Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 8:24:55 am PDT
• Category: Miscellany
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