We are having the weirdest fall. No bright colors at all, just some browns and dull reds here and there a little bit. It has not frozen yet, nor has it dipped below 40 yet to my knowledge. So most of the mountains are still green.

We had 100% totality for the eclipse here, so it was kind of awesome. Our little town of 1800 people became the focus of some 30,000 visitors in one day. We closed Main St. down and all kinds of vendors sold eclipse memorobilia for the day. Then there was a mass exodus right as soon as the eclipse was over, because, of course, we had very little places for them to stay. There was a 2 day traffic jam, from what I heard, on the way out of here on one of our highways that is less traveled, one that goes winding through the mountains. We did manage to make a camp site for 100 tents, so some folks had a place to stay. Everyone in town had guests in their guest rooms and some folks were even renting out their guest rooms for $1,000.00 or more a night!!! That was rare, though, but it was in the paper, I heard.

Anyway, the eclipse was awesome. Beyond words in some ways. And I had seen a total eclipse when I was a little girl too, but I understood so much more about it this time that the rarity of it and the beauty of it really touched me deeply.