Showing their true colors

You should be able to guess why I haven't written for a while. Work. Really, really busy all last weekend. And it's not going to get easier for a while. I have games to cover on both Friday night and Saturday afternoon for the next two weeks, which kind of shoots the weekend all to heck, since I need to have them all written up by Monday morning.

So I've been out of touch these last few days. I spent Saturday night with my wife--we watched a movie and then went upstairs for some serious snuggling. On Sunday, the Packers had the day off (they played--and lost--on Monday night). Besides, it was the first day in more than a week when the sun was out up here, and we both realized that the numbers days remaining to look at the fall colors was dwindling rapidly.

So we went for a little drive to admire all the color in the woods.

This is, of course, the loveliest part of the year up here. Fall is when the leaves show their true colors, especially the maples. But last week was dark and dank. My only last chance to get some leaf pictures last week was on Wednesday, when my wife and I went down to visit my mom and bring her some goodies she had asked for. I took some shots and sent them down to S when I wrote her over the weekend. She loved them--fall is her favorite season, too.

The sun played hide and seek that day, but on Sunday it was out in all its glory. After lunch. we found a road we like and got a few pictures along the way. I still have to work on the Sunday shots, so maybe you'll see them tomorrow night. (I had a game tonight.) But here are the earlier ones I sent to S.




Yes, the turkeys were strutting about, checking out the fall colors, too.

One of our reporters has been on vacation for the last week and a half, so that just means more stuff that the rest of us (the editor and I) have to do. Big staff, eh? I also had some special features I had to work on last week and an important game last Friday that needed a lot of coverage.

So it kept me hopping. Monday night, we watched the Packers lose. Tuesday, fortunately, was a lot slower, and I could finally catch up on all the blog alerts I didn't have time for over the last few days. I have a couple computer game-type distractions, too.

Anyway, I'm back, and I hope you enjoy the fall colors from the North Woods. More of the same in a day or two.