A Calabasa Halloween!

For one's first Halloween, one should always dress up as one's birthplace. Accordingly, Sam, being born in Calabasas, California, is a "Calabasa," which is Spanish for pumpkin. We went trick-or-treating to ONE house before Sam completely came undone. I suppose he knew that I was going to eat all the candy anyway. He wised up to my plan.

. . . to Church on Time!

Just a Few More Days til the NBA Season Begins . . .

Go Jazz!

Snowy October

This was the view that we woke up to this morning . . . October 20.

So Sam is getting an autumn start on his winter clothes. By the look of things, Sam agrees with Steinbeck, who said, "I have lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

Little Mr. Man Boobs

Le Tour de Becky

Becky has been mountain biking a ton this summer (see her legs above), and is now preparing to cash in all that added leg muscle on the slopes this winter.

An Array of Autumn

The Times in Aspen

This is the cover of The Aspen Times today, October 3, 2007. Autumn in the mountains is magnificent.