Fabulous Plaid

It's the time of year that I look outside and sigh at how ugly everything is. The beautiful autumn colors are gone and we rarely get snow, so everything is just gray. But this year, I decided to try a little harder to find beauty in the woods and in the world. And of course, if you look for something hard enough, expecting to find it, you usually do. The woods aren't so bare this year, or maybe I'm just looking at them with different eyes, but there's this lovely orange hue to everything still as the oaks hold on to their leaves. Today the temperature was quickly dropping. In the morning all the woods were wet with the previous night's rain and had that...