Halloween and Aspens

We overbought. We had a couple dozen trick or treaters for Halloween, all of them cute and little. Our neighbor told us she usually got "a lot" of kids, but that there were many activities planned around the city for older kids, and as the evening wore on it was clear we bought Too Much Candy.

All the door ringers were polite with the thank yous, even the bewildered youngest ones. Two pre-teen girls handed me candy instead of taking any. It was a quiet night and over early.

As October ends, the aspens are each doing their own thing now, some coloring yellow, some dropping leaves, and some hanging tight.

Side by side aspen clumps in our back yard.
One still full and leafy, barely turning yellow, the other completely bare.

The neighbor's aspen trees in back of us.
My view from the bedroom sliding glass doors.
Leaves are almost all down now.

The aspen outside our dining room window. still in leaf.
Beautifully yellow, it glints in the morning sun.

Hello, November.