I found Fall!

     In 1990, Desert Storm began.  Lonnie was instrumental in getting all troops and supplies sent over from El Toro.  Finally, at the end of September, he had to leave us and go to the war zone.  On their way, they landed at Loring Air Force Base and was fortunate enough to rent a car with some friends and experience the beauty of the fall in Maine.  Every since that experience, he wanted to take me up to that area to see the beautiful leaves.
     Well as a teacher, it is hard to take a week off the first month of school--so now that I'm retired, this is our year!   So we planned our trip to Maine with dear friends Teresa and Darrell.  We picked approximately the same weekend for our venture to the east coast.  Unfortunately, the weather in Maine had not behaved the way we would have liked.  Apparently, they had an extremely hot and dry summer, which affected the changing of the leaves.  We had a wonderful time, but saw very few leaves.
     Later in October, I decided to take a trip up to see the Seattle Howertons.  There I found fall!  Beautiful leaves along with my beautiful family!  Next year instead of traveling cross country, I will just go north--to Seattle!