Good Morning Whomever is still out there,
Summer is almost officially over . . . I know Labor Day tends to mark it for most folks, but the actual celestial date is the 22nd of September. In the past few years my early autumn had been spent in the Tetons where the changing colors are quite extraordinary. Here in Flagstaff I see the beginnings of fall in our aspens. This year I will get to experience the colors of Flagstaff.
Before the full onset of those autumnal colors here, I am headed out to northern San Diego County for a trip to see my family. I am departing tomorrow for Prescott then on to southern Cal the following day. Since returning from my Wyoming visit at the end of July I have spent the last month and a half here. What with getting into my new condo and all that entailed, it would have been difficult to leave. A lot of that difficulty centered around a lack of funds after all that was required (and some things not so required) to get into my new situation. However, I am enjoying my new accommodations.
Last week one of my "cronies" here in Flagstaff came into Barnes & Noble, my afternoon office/reading room, and told us he has terminal lung cancer. This was a "shocker" for my other friend Ed and myself. Charles is only 67 years old and has been given only a couple of months to live. He has always been a big bull of a man who seemed rather healthy. He built his own road bicycle and I would see him riding everywhere on it throughout the first part of this summer.
He hasn't smoked in 30 years. Needless to say this gives us all pause to think about the vagaries of life. It has been a summer of death, and now it seems to be moving into the fall.
At any rate, I need to get out of town for awhile.
Movies have continued to "suck" for the most part this summer. Since last I wrote I have seen one really bad one, All About Steve, one good one, 500 Days of Summer, and a so, so thriller whose main positive aspect was that it starred Kate Beckensale, Whiteout. Still I rank the worst of the summer as Adam Sandler and Seth Rogan's film reviewed a few weeks ago. It is probably tied with Land of the Lost for the bottom of the list. Sandra Bullock is batting just under .500 with her Proposal, earlier in summer and the really awfull aforementioned Steve film. In late spring the first of the "summer" films hit the screens. The best of these was the new Star Trek film, after that the drop off began. Angels and Demons was somewhat of a disappointment. A French film that I happened on, Summer House was excellent, but I saw that in San Diego. There were numerous others too average to mention.
Well . . . that's about it from here. Have a great Autumnal Equinox!
Happy Trails!
