From the commute cam: it’s just starting to look like autumn up on the mountain.

Puppy keeps an eye out on the porch.

Wildfire haze makes for a pretty delicious pupper sunbeam.

Friends, let’s all pause and have an afternoon espresso, what do you say?

Only a touch Mt. Doom-ish with smoke wafting up from Sedona the other evening.

Guess who’s all clean and shiny today because she met her first skunk friend last night?

Thursday afternoon work music update: playing Same Trailer Different Park by Kacey Musgraves. I’ve heard a song or two from this album, but somehow never listened to the whole thing. It’s so very good.

Late monsoon season blue grama is just lovely.

Inspired by @belle and her so handsome Samoyed, I realize I haven’t posted a pup photo for a while. Here’s Ms Young Lady Puppy having a stretch on the porch.

A couple of snapshots from my so far excellent weekend: pizza and farmhouse ale, and a monsoon season sunrise on the way to the gym. Our monsoon looks to be just about over for the year, so I’m eager for the wet weather to start giving way to cool autumn nights.