Before the snow flys...

Ooops! Too late, we has a dusting last night. So before Christmas comes, I'd like to share some fall vacation photos. My brother Scruffy went along with us. When we got there it was so cold. The heat was broken.

Brrrr, dad got us some hot chocolate and found the space heaters.

I couldn't wait to see some red trees, my favorite fall color.

Oh, there's one! Our trip's timing just missed peak color by about a week.
I've been here before, but Scruffy hadn't. I saw my first real bear here.

They have bear shows here Scruffy, and a gift shop. I told him we wouldn't see any today, they were closed for the season. Can you see the gift shop? A true shopper with a trained eye can.

I showed Scruffy one of the old train engines they had.

 I climbed the fence to check out the old tramway car. Look how dark the sky is, more rain.

Storm clouds and beautiful fall colors.

You used to see the Old Man from this spot, then one night he just slid down the mountain.

Scruffy that's all that's left of him.

Well, that, and this memorial rock.

 Grr, not a red maple, still looking. But still pretty.

We both posed.

 After the storm we saw a double rainbow! It's kind of hard to see that it was double, but it was!

 We saw the end of the rainbows. This caused Scruffy to think and

ask that age old question. "Is there really a pot of gold?

Grr-bye for now - maybe I can get a few more pictures in before Christmas.