Good morning everyone! Here I sit, with my cup of coffee, watching the morning wake up, and then I realize something. It is still dark. I cannot see anything out there. Except lights here and there in the darkness. Yes, it is early. I was up at 3:06 this morning. Why, you ask? Okay, it was me that asked, but I will tell you anyway. That is when I woke up.

I was worn out last night so I went to bed early. A little too early, at 8:20pm. That always guarantees that I will be up early too. Like this morning. But I was not the only one. One of the ladies that lives in the apartment next to mine was up at that time too and she went off to work at 3:45am.

This pic was taken on Sept. 22 last year, this year those 2 trees turned yellow and dropped their leaves before the end of August.

I also noticed how busy this street is at night, considering it is a residential street. It was also very foggy for a while, but that seems to be gone now. Hmm, I think Muffin wants my attention. Hmm, a crow just flew past my window, cawing as he went. I would not have known since it is still dark.

I am back again. Muffin was playful this morning. She chose her orange fuzzy ball to play with today. She was really running and jumping high after that thing. It is not a big ball, but Muffin prefers smaller toys so it is just perfect for her. She stopped playing so I sat down again. Now she is playing again. It is nice to see her still have so much energy at 12 years of age.

The yellow against the blue looks so nice.

I brought Muffin out onto the balcony with me and she sure enjoyed it out there. She went over to the edge and looked down, but she backed away quickly. That security netting would stop her from falling, which is good, otherwise I would not let her go out there. We will be going out there again this morning. I need to transfer some of my geraniums to smaller pots so I can bring them indoors for the winter.

This is a good time to do it while it is still warm. Less shock for them coming inside. And it is going to get cool beginning tomorrow. Might even get some frost this week if their forecast is correct. Considering their forecasts have not been doing so good lately, it probably will not get that cold. Which is fine by me. I am in no rush to get colder weather.

We mostly have yellow and gold leaves here, but we do get orange and red, like this tree, as well.

I am enjoying this abnormal warmth we are having right now. Our fall colors have not been so good this year, so I have picked out pics from other years to show for the next little while. The last really nice year we had for fall colors was in 2019. Unfortunately that was the fall I injured myself so I did not get as many pics as I would have liked.

But I am still happy with the ones I did get. The pics today are from the last couple of years. There are still trees full of green leaves, so some nice colors might show up yet. Hard to believe this is October, we had cooler weather than this in July. Just beautiful. I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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