The last rose of summer

The last rose of summer

it is hard to describe how great the weather was around Killington this weekend. After last weeks yuck, visitors to Killington were presented with possibly the nicest Columbus Day weekend in years.

Strangely, and I hate the politicization of the term "Global Warming", we have not had a ground level frost at the inn as yet. Frost has been reported on the top of Killington Peak, at 4241 feet, but at the inn altitude, 1870 feet, the ground has remained frost free. Flowers around the inn are still blooming, although they are definitely showing the stress caused by reduced sunlight falling on the ground around the inn every day. But even in this environment, one of the rose bushes near the inn's covered carriageway decided to give it a try and push out one more rose before the growing season at Killington ends.

Our attention the next few weeks around the inn will focus on getting the inn ready for winter. If history is any guide, we need to have all of our outside work done in the next 2 weeks or so. After that, with any luck, we will be seeing snow falling from the sky; and that's a good thing for late October in Killington.

Where ever you may be, keep it in the fairway, remember the leaf rule, and start thinking about sn....(no not quite yet)