GORGEOUS OCTOBER!

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

(I was looking for a quote about autumn. This made me laugh and I kept going back to it so I had to include it. Not sure what someone sees in the butocks of an ape.)

I still can't figure out this blogging. This picture should be down a lot farther. Anyway, we got to go to the Newport Beach Temple and do a session.

What a beautiful month!

Bound the quilt and did a little decorating for

Halloween.

This was part of "Our Town" this month. We went to Pelican Lake Cafe near Ouray. The food was great, huge portions. Couldn't get this picture right side up.

I have never been to Pelican Lake. It is beautiful as you come over the hill and see the lake. I think that these are potato storage warehouses being built by an Idaho potato farm that came down and bought and ton of land and are now growing potatoes. If the figures which I heard were correct, we are all in the wrong business.

Part 2 of "Our Town." They reopened the Quarry after 5 years and it was free during this month so we went one weekend. The weather was about 65 and it was incredible. The visitor's center and the quarry exhibit hall were beautiful buildings and very well done. I am excited that tourism will be coming back to town.

Took part of the drive around the Monument. Stopped and hiked to the petroglyphs.

Walked down to the river. This picture didn't catch the beautiful green color of the river and the gorgeous golds of the fall trees.

Are you ever too old to be amazed at all these dinosaur bones in the hillside?

Now for California: Elise and I flew down to spend a week at her sister Amy's home in Hawthorne. She lives 5 minutes from Manhattan Beach and we ate at North End Diner (shown on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives). It was a fun restaurant. We had such gorgeous weather, unseasonably warm.

The view as you come down to Manhattan Beach. They have a boardwalk where we walked and admired all of the gorgeous homes.

Point Fermin Lighthouse (I think). We couldn't get very close.

Wayfarer's Chapel along Palos Verdes Drive.

Point Vicente Lighthouse.

Crystal Cove State Park. This was just a few minutes after the picture above at the Newport Beach Temple. The fog was on the shore and it was freezing cold.

This bobcat walked in front of our car at Crystal Cove State Park with a rabbit in its mouth.

I think this is Malibu Beach.

This was my beach attire on Malibu Beach. Can you tell I'm not from California? I joined the girls with string bikinis. In my defense, we had left Utah very early that morning and had gone straight sightseeing without changing.

Getty Villa.

Disneyland! Guess which rides?

California Adventure. They had just opened The World of Color which is a fountain/light show in the pond directly in front of this ferris wheel. It was an incredible show. A suggestion: don't go down on the boardwalk - we think you would be able to see better if you were up a little higher.