Autumns Beauty . . .

Natures Paintbrush!

Fairy's Carpet  . . . .

Colorful leaves decorating the Green Fir trees

Dew on the Larch/Tamarack 

Larix laricina

There has been a lot going on lately.  Finished a long time job . . .started a new one . . . with a weekend in-between, I have  been up to visit my daughter at College while  the same weekend my son in turn came home - so I mostly missed seeing him . . . .  But the colorful trees were lovely right up in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks!

Graduate 2014 #1

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! 

A.S. in Biology Liberal Arts and Sciences  White Color Tassel

A.A.S. Wildlife Science and Fisheries  Rust Color Tassel

It was a good day. Cooler than we needed but comfortable.  Dinner out at a favorite restaurant. Brownies and Ice Cream and a Chick Flick that night. Wishing my daughter all the best as she now moves onto bigger and better things ahead of her.  Fly, stretch those wings and fly.

View of Paul Smith College

Decisions are in . . . . .

  One will attend here in the Fall for Electrical Engineering.




     The other will transfer to here in the Fall to study Environmental Biology.


So, Breathe I say to myself, so many changes coming our way .. . . . so many changes coming their way.  Somehow together we will make it through. Life will be so very different with these changes. It has been a long route to get here. Essays, references, visits, interviews, tours.  I hope that they will both have wonderful positive college experiences.  One day at a time for all of us. These 2 colleges are about an hour apart.  Paul Smith is in the heart of the ADK. 30 minutes from Lake Placid.  Clarkson is further north and west.  -25 can be a norm not an exception on a winters morning.