Fall is in the air and on my lawn

Although the leaves haven’t turned, the lawn is littered with foliage that has been stripped from the trees by force of wind. Today promises to be windy with some rain mixed in.

I took Caroline to see The Legend of the Guardians : The Owls of Ga’Hoole. She enjoyed it although I had to explain a plot point or two after the film which is not a great sign with a children’s movie. We saw it in 3-D and there were some nice effects that they seem to toss in for the look. The problem is that after How to train your dragon which had such lovely flying sequences, this pales a little in comparison. It is not a bad film by any stretch. I think it would have done better if it had come out before HTTYD. I enjoyed it as well. It is done by the group that did Happy Feet so the realism of the owls is really good. It looks nice, I just had some problems with the script. I also think it would work probably just as well in 2-D really.

I understand why the movies, especially the ones for children, are pushing to get it out in 3-D, but not all films need 3-D to be effective. And there are a number of films still coming out that have been forced into the 3-D and you can tell it.

Today back to the conquest of Ariel’s room. Considering how clean I had it at the beginning of the summer, I am a little amazed at how far it devolved. So I plan to pop Adventure of Baron Muchausen into the DVD player and have a go at cleaning everything up. This has to be done by the end of business today so I can get going on the rest of the house. Plus we need to get stuff together for New York Comic Com.

Busy, busy, busy but it beats the alternative by a long shot.

I am grateful when a plan comes together.