This spring, just as the trees were budding, later than normal, Sandy and I walked the Williams Nature Trail near Minneopa State Park. It has a paved path that allows her to use her walker.

In the middle of the summer we hit the MinnesotaLandscape Arboretum at the peak of color.

Now, in this quick autumn season, out the window above my computer I  see the last bright colors hanging on.

My grandson, Mr. Tuxedo was here Saturday and wished he had brought a book to read sitting out in the ravine beyond that tree.

Then we went out to buy him and his sister their pumpkins to carve this week. Halloween, it seems to me, is the exclamation point to summer.

Are you a pumpkin carver?