Musings

I experimented with stage lighting in portrait mode on this blooming beauty. Interesting, but only momentarily. Sometimes that’s enough…although I’m not feeling it today.

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I did pick a picture, massaged it. Thought it over-saturated, yet interesting. Couldn’t figure out what to write, and was tired, so I just went to bed.

Apologies.

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This was the height of my gardening success this year…this blooming basil (in front of the taxus or whatever that evergreen is).

I guess we were on the move at the wrong times, and the weather wasn’t wet/dry at the right times.

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After I returned from a short-ish walk, JCB asked me how many election signs I saw. Hmmm. None that I noticed, but many, many Halloween decorations. I thought this was the most creative, especially from this angle.

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I do like our primary bedroom en suite shower view. That’s a redbud waving at you.

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The motel that brought us to this spot: in need of updating. Their problem: the “bones”/structure of the property: unalterably lacking. Yet…the view: wow.
Credit to the management for tending to what they can.

Here, the valley-mountain topography offers a beautiful morning-moment that we don’t see in the UP or at home. A supremely unimpressive motel, and a terrific Appalachian morning-view.

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With the exception of a delightful interlude in A-Squared, we have been logging mile….

…iterspersed with rest area stops. During those I found a few dramatic sunlight moments. Or semi-dramatic. These were both in Ohio.

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Closing the cottage requires a long, long to-do list. Check, check, and check. The most time-consuming activities center around the water system, draining and setting it up for winter cold in such a way that no pipes or valves are cracked or broken. However, there are myriad other chores, plus it’s nice to get the floor swept and other cleaning accomplished that isn’t strictly necessary. We did everything we could think of. Bien hecho.

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Single best visual find in months: the icy cap on these wee mushroom caps. What texture! What subtlety! What ephemera!

This, on the other hand, is mostly a color mosaic. I’m amazed how many leaves are still on the tree, and still colorful, with that blanket of the fallen foliar fragments.

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We’ve gotten a fair amount of rain and snow over the last two days, yet the precip hasn’t been constant. Still, the water level in the swamp is up markedly.

In other swamp news, the tamaracks are turning golden. They are deciduous conifers and have needles, or plant parts that look like needles. They aren’t as large as leaves, so they produce a cloud of color around the trees.

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