We returned to our Littleton, Colorado, farm yesterday under deep blue skies. The Front Range peaks were covered with snow but it was a pleasant 68 degrees F in Metro Denver.
The weather here has been more conducive to fall splendor than in the Midwest and colorful trees adorn the urban corridor. At the farm, we were greeted by the "clean" landscape that dry air and cold nights produce and it was nice to settle in without the urge to get out the trimmers.
As if to signal the cool weather ahead, a pair of Townsend's solitaires, down from the mountains, chased each other about the property, dueling for "ownership" of our juniper berries. No doubt, dark-eyed juncos and pine siskins will soon follow, joined by Steller's jays, mountain chickadees and other high country residents as winter conditions intensify.
