She's favoring her left leg. Used to people, there are nearby cabins, she ran along side the road when she heard our SUV, stopped when I called to her, long enough to eat a big blueberry muffin.

A few fall pics. Haven't had much chance to look at them this year. Some of these were from a moving car (I was the passenger). All taken with my Droid Turbo phone. Fall color at the Grand Casino, Hinckley, MN

Not yet, but y'know it's coming! It is actually snowing here today...not accumulating, but definitely snow falling.

The chihuly sculpture is the blue glass cubes in the lower fountain. The upper fountain is a permanent fixture. A lot of his sculptures are placed in water. Chihuly has linked the origins of glass to a water environment through the myth of shipwrecked Mediterranean sailors accidentally creating glass from a beach bonfire some four thousand years ago.62 He also perceives water as a major source of his own creativity, noting, “One of the great attractions of being in the Northwest is the rain. I find the rain very creative. Water is the one thing that I can assure you is a major influence on my work and my life and everything I do...If I don’t feel good or I don’t feel creative, if I can get near the water something will start to happen.”63