October Part One

I am not going to lie to you…most of my pictures from October are just leaves. Thing is, that is what mostly occupies my mind/eye/camera as I go from place to place.

Cinderblock

I guess I really didn’t expect this to look so cool! Such is life.

Sumac

Sumac is one of my all-time favorite trees. It’s fuzzy and the berries make this great lemonade. You can hollow out the stems to make spigots. You can tear them down and make a huge bonfire. In autumn, the range of colors they produce are just shy of unbelievable.

Orange

I warned you.

Dead Leaves

As Jack White sings, “dead leaves and the dirty ground/ when I know you're not around”

Zombies

About an hour into the Zombie Pub Crawl in Minneapolis, I realized that our generation has no real purpose. We have no war, no Great Depression, as it were. Instead we prefer to spend our considerable resources dressing up and playing dead. Just to feel alive.

Corn 1

Many breathless moments have been spent afraid in cornfields.

Corn 2

Let it be known that walking in corn is the best thing ever, unless you start thinking about drowning in it, or starving children, or government subsidies…

Fall Fare

Pumpkin soup, salad, fresh bread, red wine, hot cider…

Life is good.