It's taken some eight years now, but I've convinced the missus to go camping.  Tomorrow we embark to Kelsey Campground in Pike National Forest.  It's essentially established primitive camping which I figure will be a short hop to selling her on backpack camping.  My optimism knows no bounds.

This is going to be Fáelán's first trip and he's excited.  I picked him up a couple of children's nature books that cover rudimentary tree, plant, and wildlife identification as well as tracking.  Hopefully I can instill a naturalist inclination in my spawn.

It's been brought to my attention that I've yet again lapsed on updates. Quick synopis of recent happenings: we took the kids to Carlsbad for a quick vacation to see the caverns and to meet up with my parents, Jody traveled more, bike rides were made, Rowan started back to school (1st grade now), and I finally got the garage organized and have gotten back into woodworking.

Currently we're into the full onset of autumn. We got an ever slight dusting of snow the other day with a decent chance of some tonight. Loveland has already opened up, of course it's rock board conditions right now, but it's looking like this year's early season will be better than last. I've been procrastinating on picking up my season pass but it's about time to get it.

Yet again I have to make excuses for not getting to my backlog of photos. Too bad I'm too snobbish to just use a point and shoot as it really is unbelievably easier than requiring the whole digital darkroom approach. As we get into our cold weather "shut in" days it'll give me something to do at least.