The last couple of weeks, cooler, the threat of rain every day, the abrupt end of summer. The customers, largely disappeared - coming in to say goodbye, the vacationers that stay for the season and have made us their regular hangout are packing up their cottages and returning - to Calgary, to California, Arizona, warmer climes, the winter will be lean indeed...and I want to chastise them, for not renting their cottages to me, for not somehow compromising and accommodating the locals, but it's not my place, and the winter grows darker and colder in the basement...
Wake up, early, no great peaks are visible from the restaurant but on the low-slung saddles of the mountains you can see the snow beginning, the reversal of spring when the snow gradually went up the mountains, the snow is now starting to appear at the tops, gone by noon, gone by 2:00, now staying the entire day and creeping down towards the lake... I am lost in Foon.