The End of Summer

Provo public schools start Wednesday, Katy and Zoe have returned from Wales, Education Week starts Monday, preschool conferences at BYU start a week from Monday, there has been a nip of fall in the air, and it feels like summer is gone.

Will and Jamie spent the week here and Ann and Stephen put together a small fete for them last weekend. The Hastings came down to visit because they were headed out for Rob's family reunion in Idaho this week and would be unable to see the NC Taylors any other time.

The happy welcoming committee for Will and Jamie

The binkers enjoying Uncle's water feature

Monday evening was the final "group" picnic of the summer, so now its back to monthly dinners. Vern and Jerry, we miss you.

The final summer picnic: Millers and Ostergars

Liz and Phil

Phillip and Meagan invited us to pick berries with them on a West-Mountain farm, but Saturday dawned cool and rainy. We, however, loved the weather and picked a gallon of blackberries and two gallons of raspberries. P&M and their binkers picked about 3 or 4 gallons of blackberries. They are now either made into jam or frozen. We also went with them on their traditional Saturday visit to the Farmers' Market for lunch. It was such a fun morning; it was as good as a London adventure. That afternoon we went to see Julie and Julia with Hank and Colette, and after the film we went with them to La Casita for supper. What a day! No shopping, no laundry, just lots of fun adventures. The Saturday chores will keep.

Timp brooding on a cool and rainy Saturday morning

Ready to pick

The picking has begun

Katy gently plucking the ripe raspberries

Raspberry fields forever (w/ apologies to the Beatles)

Enjoying the fruits of their labors

Grammy keeping Ollie warm at the Farmers' Market

Good eats and treats

Crepes for dessert

Tonight, Sunday, we drove to Salt Lake City with Stephen and Ann to have dinner at Kreg and HB, our Calder (Hansen) cousins. HB and Norma are visiting and Dorothy and Kreg made a delicious meal. We had dessert on the roof terrace of Kreg's condominium on 3rd Avenue. It was a beautiful evening and a great finish to a fun week and weekend.

The first siting of Katy and Zoe Sunday afternoon

Norma, HB, Dorothy, and Kreg

A spectacular, cool August evening on Kreg's roof with its
incomparable view of the Utah State Capitol and Ensign Peak

Good times, but that's all for now.

OXO

D.