Category: Alabama

  • Fall colors update

    This is my favorite tree just a couple of days later: Only a very little green remains.

  • Fall Colors

    A few days ago, the kids and I went for a short walk around the neighborhood. I want to show you my favorite tree. I love the mix of colors on one tree. One branch has leaves of green, yellow, orange, and red. So beautiful! My next favorite has some purple in its genes. Perhaps…

  • Because how can I have a blog called Alabamenagerie and NOT blog about Alabama football? RTR

    Pardon the cliché, but the atmosphere in Tuscaloosa is electric. Downtown, Midtown, and, especially, campus are completely a-buzz, and have been since Thursday. We went to the library yesterday and got a little, “HEY, LSU fans are here!” lining River Road near the RV lot on the river. They’re a precious bunch, the LSU fans.…

  • Our fall camping trip

    Our fall camping trip

    After a month of planning and changing plans and planning again, we finally took our family’s fall camping trip. Our friends the Hollingsworths went with us again. When Ben wasn’t playing, he was reading our Calvin & Hobbes collection. Indeed it is a magical world. At the last minute, we changed our camping location plans.…

  • Autumn has arrived

    Today was our first really chilly day. The hoodies and pull-overs are back in the closets. I love the crisp air mingled with the scent of a fire in a neighbor’s fireplace. It was only in the 60’s today; she must have been eager for a fire. The changing leaves are beautiful.