Welcome November!

Happy Halloween! October seemed to pass too quickly! October is the month of autumn color along the front range in Colorado, as you can see from the photos from my area above. I particularly love looking out my front window to see the yellow, orange, and red glow of the Emerald Ash tree that is in front of my house.

October is also the month I roast pie pumpkins in my oven to make  pumpkin puree.  I freze the pumpkin puree in one-cup measurements to use in cakes, stews, soups, and chiles.  You can find my pumpkin bread recipe here. I will share a new recipe I tried this year using pumpkin along with cornmeal and coconut milk, which was also delicious, in a future post.

Happily, most of the last of the green tomatoes that I picked when the danger of frost was predicted, turned red by the end of October.  I roasted them in the oven and then ran them through the food mill to make tomato sauce--so good!  I also froze that for future use.

This week we woke up to our first snow! Our granddaughter was sleeping over at our house the night before and was so excited to see the snow!  Many of the trees were still full of autumn leaves so it was a collision of the seasons, between winter and fall, as you can see in the photos above.

In true Colorado form, most of the snow began melting when the sun began to shine later in the day. It gave us well needed mositure.

 

A few local deer enjoyed sunning themselves at my side yard, after the snow.

 

Every year we take a ride over to see a Halloween-decorated house in our area that is programmed with light and sound. They had a series of "Stranger Things" scenarios as well as the "This is Halloween " song and "I Put a Spell On You."  It's fun and so clever to see!  Copyright music issues make it impossible to post a video, but I hope you can imagine it.

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”

— Gladys Taber

Welcome to November!

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