FOTD – November 4, 2018
Photos: Garry & Marilyn Armstrong
We had a serious wind and rain storm last night and this morning. Big limbs all over the driveway. Watching the oaks wave in the wind … which is actually kind of eerie.
Those oaks are big (tall!) trees. When they fall, they take down a lot of stuff with them. Watching them move with the wind is a bit scary.
Wild asters and a big bee
But so far, so good. We just lost a lot of branches which Garry tossed into the woods. The driveway was effectively blocked.
Women by the river – Photo: Garry Armstrong
Photo: Garry Armstrong
In the course of events, most of the trees are bare. Tomorrow is supposed to be nice, but Monday and thereafter? Who knows? More wind, more rain, and the rivers are beginning to crest. It was bound to happen.
The last branch
And Garry’s best shot of October, introducing THE SQUIRREL!
Photo: Garry Armstrong – Gray squirrel by the Blackstone
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Categories: #Flowers, #Photography, Autumn, Cee's Photo Challenge, Flower of the day, Garry Armstrong, wildflowers
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All beautiful and unique! If I ever get ’round to doing that second book of poetry, I would love to use “Last Branch” for the cover art. It just speaks to me. The squirrel? LOL…Garry caught Mr. Squirrel just at the right moment, didn’t he? 🙂
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He wasn’t sure he’d gotten the shot. It took me a while to get the lighting right. Backlighting is a bitch.
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You are welcome to use any of my photos. IF you are going to print them, let me know and I will (if I can) send you high resolution versions that should make better prints.
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Amazing pictures. A few of them look like paintings.
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Nice editing! Our weather seems to be opposite of yours — a couple of days of cool-down and marine layer, then right back up to 90!
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Cold here this morning. We’ve had a nice 2 weeks of real Fall. Guess we’re ready for the snow.
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Two weeks is great. We had about 4 hours, I reckon.
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Lovely photographs, Marilyn.
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Thanks 🙂 I needed some flowers.
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The photos are wonderful.
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With the endless rain and wind, I needed flowers 😀
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Very interesting effects Marilyn.
Leslie
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Sometimes, I get experimental. Especially when I’ve photographed the same thing a bunch of times.
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It kicks it up a notch….
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Lucky you. I havn’t seen a squirrel since my week in New York and that was at the end of the last centuary
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We never see them either. They are here because they think cables are their version of chewing gum, but they stay in the trees where the coyotes, wildcats, foxes, and fisher weasels can’t eat them. Then all they have to worry about are hawks, eagles, and owls.
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