Abiquiu

Abiquiu in fall is dramatic in a different way. Very sharp light variations & all the sunflowers lining the roads have gone dry and brown, soon to collapse and return to the earth. And when the clouds obscured the sun it was really quite cold. Twist had to be on a long lead, because of his twice disappearing to hunt critters and not returning for Some Time. But Folly and Bodkin were happy adventurers. Folly goes off in one direction for a while and returns from the opposite direction. Magic. The water level is substantially higher than in the summer --- perhaps some volumes of rain since then from way upstream? The shoreline we occupied over the summer is under water now, so we pitched camp farther up the hill and tied Twisty to a log. Miraculously, he did not yip and complain. The water was tested by MCR with several strokes and two dunks under water. That was it. Even compared to SF Bay it was Way Too Cold. Welcome to the change in season. So we finished our picnic, packed up and climbed back up the hill. Really a perfect Sunday in Abiquiu.