It's Fall Time, and in Western Idaho, Winter Winds are Beginning to Blow

It's Fall time, and in Western Idaho Winter winds are beginning to blow.  Soon the few colorless leaves that cling tenaciously to cottonwoods will give up their hold and fall to the ground.  Snow will cover them so they may remain intact, creating soil from which new plants will spring next season.

The last of procrastinators are lumbering home with pickups piled with firewood for Winter warmth, meeting along the way hunters whose bounty lay in pickup beds.  Their families are assured of meat for the Winter.

The temperatures at night here in Idaho City are freezing and below.  Gardens, though usually small because of the rock soil, have been harvested and the produce canned.

Fields of green in the county now sprout mounds of hay, and animals that depend on it will eat in abundance this Winter to protect themselves from the cold.

All is well in the little town that survives no matter what happens on the troubled national scene.  It's satisfying to flow with the seasons.