Gerri’s Blog

There’s a rumor that the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Convention will be in Denver next summer. I think that would be a wonderful time and place for the 1st Annual GGG Convention as well! What do you think?

I know the calendar is only nudging toward late August, but dare I say that fall is in the air? It hasn’t been so blasted hot during the day, it hasn’t been 82 and humid at 5:00 a.m., no, it’s actually closer to 70. The days are getting shorter and the birds are starting to move. As I told someone who was kind (cruel) enough to send me a beautiful photo of Pikes Peak with a dusting of snow, taken yesterday morning (with a note I should quit bitching about the weather!!)…the hummingbirds are starting their migration. We have a handful that summer here and nest, and I keep three feeders up to support eight or ten birds because they have to fight the bees for the sugar water. Over the weekend, the activity at the feeders increased and I added a fourth feeder, and yesterday evening, we had five birds to a feeder, buzzing around each other and entertaining us with their aerial attacks and flybys! I promise to get photos as you will be amazed at how many birds will come through in the next three to four weeks. There will be twenty or more birds at each feeder and we will have six feeders going during the migration period. The friend that we have come over in September while we’re in Colorado hates us! Not only does she have to fill the regular ten bird feeders and make sure the raccoons haven’t eaten all the cat food…she has to fill six hummingbird feeders with sugar water!

But fall is a great time of year, isn’t it? And I know I probably said the same thing in the spring (and will next spring as well!) but I love the subtle changing of the seasons. Those who live down here will say we don’t really have seasons because summer takes up nine months of the year! So even though the calendar says autumn, our temperatures may not. Even so, the changing of the colors is enough to let you know that it’s supposed to be autumn. That, and our humidity slips away some, giving us a few of those clear, brisk…fresh autumn days, where the sky is bluer, the air cooler, the breeze fragrant with the smells of the forest…the kind of day where you want to be outside, close your eyes and take a deep breath…and imagine yourself standing in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, gazing up at Pikes Peak with her dusting of snow, lazy clouds drifting by, and the air hinting at what winter will bring.

And that, my friends, is heaven!

Have a wonderful week….