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10/11/2003: "Still Stoked"

Thursday night went as expected. We're here in Michigan doing the big fall colors and "close for the summer" Columbus Day weekend. Everyone had arrived by 9 PM, and we were all busy helping the late arrivals to "come down" with copious quantities of beer and whiskey. Taking our cue from the Eskimos (fat is good against the cold), we had popped a ham in the oven for dinner along with baked butternut squash and some green vegetables. During the period of food coma following dinner, we sat around the fireplace checking out and sampling everyone's choice of CDs and specialty beers. Click more.. below.

Friday morning we woke up to a clear, crisp, and pretty much perfect fall day. The fall colors were great and the air temperature over the water was somewhere between 65 and 70 degrees with a compensating hot sun baking down. Needless to say, we spent the day in the boat. We trudged and sometimes roared up and down three lakes and the Torch River (a half-hour "no wake" stretch) taking pictures and cracking wise to other boaters as we passed. We had lunch, beer and burgers, in Alden, at a tavern with outdoor seating, and then cruised the shops up and down Main Street.

We were back by late afternoon. We knocked off some "closing" projects and downloaded and recharged our digital cameras, because a full "Harvest Moon" was due to rise across the lake a little after 7 PM. Low light, high contrast photography is a challenge for digital cameras, and everyone wanted to give it a shot. It stayed pretty warm, maybe mid-60s, so after shooting the moonrise we took our beer next door where Jay had a bonfire going.

Right now, it looks like more of the same for tomorrow and the rest of the weekend. Yeah, Columbus Day weekend is everything it's cracked up to be at least once every five years.

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