The Po Show

Leafless

Sigh, this is the third weekend in a row that's gotten shot. We were going to drive up to Sugarloaf today and do the leafing thing on Bear Mountain (Ross HATES the made-up term "leafing," so I keep using it :D). Nothing too involved, just looking at leaves and doing a short hike and then having a nice lunch at one of the cute restaurants in Sugarloaf (cutesy artsy town). Then we were going to stop at the outlet center on the way home so I could go to the Gymboree outlet (only an hour away and I've never been there!).

But Tessa started running a fever of 102 last night, so going out today was obviously out.

I don't know why I'm so bummed about not driving to see leaves. It's not like there are no trees with changing leaves right here in the neighborhood (I'm reminded of 2 years ago, when we spent the day driving up to Litchfield, CT to see leaves. We'd "missed" them, as most of the trees were already bare, so we just had lunch and came home. When we got back, Matthew looked at the fallen leaves in our backyard and disgustedly said, "Ah, look at all these leaves! Why did we have to go all that way??").

I just feel like it's a fall thang, here on the east coast, to go see a forest full of changing leaves, to make it a bit of an occasion. Tessa has an outfit that I bought her specifically to go leafing, and hasn't worn it yet. Next weekend, especially after all the wind we've been having, the leaves will probably be much diminished. It's been such a weird fall, weather-wise. It was 80 degrees last Monday! Tonight's low is going to be 37. What happened to the crisp October?