A chilly 50F at 8.30am with a thick blanket of ominous cloud lying low overhead. It’s been a bumper month for the oak trees as a carpet of acorns crunch underfoot on the forest floor and at field’s edge. By afternoon, Bellayre Mountain was capped with a layer of fog that crept gradually into the valleys with the temperature rising to 55F.

© J.N. Urbanski 10/13/14 3.30pm