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Still windy here but one day it was calm enough to get out over the weekend for another walk around the lake.  We've been walking around the lake over at Arrowhead quite a bit lately and as of three days ago,the area still had quite a bit of autumn colors.  The leaves will be falling fast now that the temps have dropped into the 30 to 40's at night.  I think California will finally get some rain starting around the 19th or so, especially in Los Angeles area - and this should help with putting out the fires. 

I have kept busy enjoying finding beautiful places to walk or hike before all the leaves fall off the trees.  We were going to go to Big Bear today for their Halloween celebration but decided instead to stay closer to home and go over to Lake Arrowhead which I think we have done just about every day this week.   We're going there today to see Some dance group do "Thriller" at what they call Center Stage which is a stage set up outside in the middle of the village.  Then we will get a walk in after that. I was looking at paintings of Lake Arrowhead and found this one was done by Thomas Kinkade.  It's a beautiful representation of the Village and the Arrowhead Queen boat which gives tours along the lake. We've been lucky enough to find some trails down to the shoreline to walk along  through the forest.  For six years we have believed since this was a private lake and they had gates where you needed keycards that we wouldn't be able to experience walking there. ...