Journeys

It is a typical autumn day in Idaho, overcast and cool.  The clouds promise snow.  We closed the cabins and motel units last Thursday.  Everything is winterized.  What an awesome season 2010 turned out to be!  So many wonderful people stayed with us on their journeys.  Today Robert and I took a thermos of hot coffee, loaded the dogs and headed back up to Ashton to pick up a few more supplies and tools from the house.  I also took tulip and daffodil bulbs.  The planters in front of the cabins still have petunias blooming and I carefully worked around them planting the bulbs in clusters of 3.  The dirt was soft, springy and cool.  The brave little bulbs will wait out the winter for the sunshine of spring.   The larger flower gardens haven’t  frozen down yet either and I worked another hour in the front bed where the little welcome bear had stood most of the summer.  He is hibernating now in no. 1.   The sunsets this time of year are beautiful and set the golden trees ablaze.