Another weekend ahead for me - lots of football, beer, and unhealthy food.

Life is good.

A pastel rose, taken 2 days ago...

   

Cool pre-winter day today. Another mural going up. With the worker in the photo it shows size perspective. Do you know what the picture will be?

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Here's a cloudscape (taken May 17, 2018) with colors similar to the one I posted yesterday...

   

I'm glad that the bird is there to add a small point of interest.

Happy Hump Day!

I finally got my new cell phone functional. After hours talking with tech support last week, they promised to escalate the issue, but when I called back on Monday for status I learned that they lied to me - the problem wasn't escalated and nothing had been done.

However the person I spoke to on Monday was able to get things fixed in about 10 minutes - something that the several so-called tech specialists (including one tech supervisor) couldn't or wouldn't do.

Still some minor issues: 1) the step counter consistently under reports my daily steeps by 6 to 10%, and 2) I've been unable to transfer photos from the old phone to the new one. But at least I can make and receive phone calls and texts again.

A photo from April 2018 of a sunset down my street and reprocessed yesterday....

   

Not especially vivid but I like and especially the harmonious colors and especially the dramatic values of the sky.

Greetings all. Heading down to Main St in a bit to take some videos of our Local College Homecoming Parade. A little overcast so I hope I don't get wet.

Ran across this still life I set up many years ago and added the background in photoshop.

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Well, the Corn Palace mural decorations are underway. They say all will be done by Thanksgiving. The theme for 2026 is the 250th birthday of our country.
This mursl is waiting for some brown corn to fill the inkwell and the quill of the feather.

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Happy Thursday everyone. 
Our annual pheasant hunting season started last Saturday. It is an annual event for many out of state hunters that have been coming back for many years. Back in my day of hunting, last century, our airport was packed with private planes flown in for the event. I meant to get to the airport Saturday but didn't make it. This photo is from yesterday and shows a few but many had already left.

Our airport used to be a commercial one with a few flights a day but when jet service came in we went to a small city owned airport. I remember when I was in the Navy that I came home after my discharge in 1964 on a DC3, a great plane.

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Good day.

A neighbor puts a lot of thought and effort to decorations for various holidays. For Halloween this year he chose a number of similar scary creatures, and also has erected an arch of thin PVC pipes over the sidewalk, illuminated with lights of appropriate colors.

And he isn't done yet: he just set up a double-wide canopy (of the sort seen at swap meets or farmer's markets), and I'm eager to see what he puts there.

Anyway, here are two photos taken last week...

   

   

TGIF!

Yesterday I took a bunch of shots of a red flower hanging from a basket on the side of our garage.

Here's one...

   

I wish us all a good weekend.

I did my first trip with the little camping trailer this week. Only for one night at a Corps of Engineer campground that is fairly close, just about a 45 minute ride. No problem pulling the trailer with my Spyder. Here are a few photos taken at the campsite.

First photo is arriving at campsite, next 2 are after all set up. Took about 15-20 minutes to do that. Last is the sunset - no clouds at all. 

Next trip will be a bit longer, up to north Georgia. There will actually be several other folks with the same type of camper there, coming from Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina... at least that is the plan. We'll see how many actually show up. It's about a 3 1/2 hour ride for me, and unfortunately will require me to navigate Atlanta traffic. Not looking forward to that.

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