Beautiful Tuesday Morning. After the past week’s rather dark and rainy weather, it’s finally gotten pretty nice out. Still only hints of fall in Albany today, but hopefully by this weekend, the leaves should be about peak in the Finger Lakes. We will see – a lot will depend on the elevation.

 A Rather Broke, Lazy Weekend. The best way to describe this past weekend is that I was pretty broke after closing out the month of September, and it was cold and rainy, so I stayed home, and didn’t do much, besides screwing around with the PHP API and working on replacing the existing blog code.

Saturday, I literally did absolutely nothing, besides just hang around the apartment and screw around with some code. Sunday, was slightly more productive. I went down to the library, then grocery shopping to pick up some essentials. Went for a nice walk at Five Rivers Environmental Education, although the leaves weren’t that turned, except for the maples down by the Vlomans Kill.

Actually Had to Loan Myself Money to Close Out September. So be it. There have been a lot of fun adventures lately, and honestly, money is always tight closing out Septembers. The car insurance bill takes a big bite out of the account this time of year. Things should improve after I get paid Tuesday evening and can repay the money I loaned myself to close out the week.

Next Week Starts My Cross-State Road Trip. Probably today, in one week, I will be at Letchworth State Park. Starting out the trip at the Fillmore Glen in the Finger Lakes, then two days in the Finger Lakes Region before heading west to Harriet Hollister Spencer State Park and Letchworth. Eventually will end up at the Chautauqua Gorge, and probably head back east via Pennsylvania, possibly on the southern edge of the Pennsylvania wilds, that is after checking out Kinzua Bridge State Park. Should be a lot of fun.

Leaves Only Starting to Come Out Locally. This is despite all the color up north at Moose Plains 3 weeks ago. I am hopeful that the leaves will be at peak by the time I get out to the Finger Lakes. I am sure they will be somewhat past peak by the time I climb up onto the Applachian Plateau, but I doubt they will be turned too much past peak in Chautauqua County.