Snow!?

Weren't we just swimming?  I forget that every year, just when you think the leaves are never going to fall off the trees, there's a sudden really cold snap and they fall off allatonce.  

 

Burning Bushes

 Every autumn innocuous green bushes around our neighborhood turn the most amazing red.

These include a row that runs along the side of the theatre building at school towards the entrance that have been growing steadily in the 26 years we've been here:
 

Whenever they start to turn they remind me of when Thomas was very little and we gave him his own camera (or probably let him use an old one) - this is pre-digital - and he took pictures of these when they were considerably smaller.  For some reason I had a memory of the picture looking like the one above, but that would be far too prosaic for Thomas The Artist, as you can see (I tracked them down in one of our photo albums):

 What an eye!

Further Fall Fotos

 

Fall Fotos

 

No Kings Rally in Flint

As there were rallies all over the country, I didn't expect many people at the one in Flint, particularly as it wasn't in a particularly nice part of town, but the reason for that might be that, next to an increasingly abandoned mall, there were vacant parking lots to use.  And actually, they filled up.  Jami didn't want me posting any photos because they could conceivably be used against the people in them.  But I imagine everybody else will be posting photos, but anyway I scribbled over faces and only used photos where there weren't many, so here we are.

 

Days like this are why October is my fave month

 Low 60s but bright sunshine - bliss.

 

YMCA

Flint got a brand spanking new YMCA last year, so the old one is slowly being demolished.  I drive by it every morning.

 

 

Still shorts weather