Day 15.315: Sunday firsts

In the midst of all the play-related comings and goings, Exile #2 and I managed a small outing to the beach on Sunday afternoon.

We debated whether this was evidence of some kind of The Bachelor incident - possibly gone wrong:

certainly a red rose on the beach was a new find for us. It was also the first time the air was cold enough for the first hint of the mirage effect on the horizon.

We made our way back through Ferry Beach State Park, which is feeling very open now that the leaves have almost all fallen.

Although none was forecast, we felt like it might snow at times and soon after we got home it did:

Well, technically it was probably graupel, but the first wintery precipitation we'd properly witnessed (there was evidence of some a couple of weeks ago, but it had already changed over to rain by the time we got out of bed in the morning).