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who doesn't love a good sunset?

fall is pumpkins and squash, indian corn, and crisp air. i can't wait to head out to the pumpkin patch to pick out ours next weekend :) and as a bonus a funny story for you. when i was little mom used to volunteer at my school. she always helped out when they did hearing and vision tests at the beginning of the school year. she recently told me a funny story about one of those years. she was working with a little girl who just wouldn't speak. mom asked her her name. she wouldn't tell her she tried laughing with her and telling her a story but nothing doing. finally mom asked her what her mother called her at home. to which she replied "puuuunkin." and she didn't say another word the whole time ;) ah you have to love the south :)

it's official; fall is here

a couple of weekends ago we headed out to point reyes national seashore and caught sight of some tule elk. i'd never seen this kind of elk before, there are some ladies off in the distance if you squint you can almost see them lying down... but this guy is on the wrong side of the 8 foot livestock fence and the other side of a cattle guard from the girls hanging out with a bunch of cows... silly guy

harvest moon. mike over at friday foto proposed a labor day theme this week and this is what i saw tonight. moonrise over sonoma mountain. school is in full swing. and its getting crisp at night. i don't see labor day as the end of summer but more the unofficial start of fall.

we needed a little color here to brighten things up. the grass is all dead. and the heat is incredible (well for here it's hot). i can't wait for fall. soon i can already tell it is changing. maybe some fog tonight. now wouldn't that be nice!

i just couldn't kick the flower bug. the veggies are doing well but the patio needed a little color. say hello to the newest addition to the family :) i love geraniums!

we were wandering the city with dave's folks last week and i saw the neatest building. i just love the details they used to put into the simplest things we

when in wine county you know are surrounded by wine and vineyards and it just follows...you're completely surrounded by grapes

it's night time on the carousel down at wonderland on the ocean city boardwalk

at low tide rain and seaweed on the beach

so any guesses as to what we'll be driving under on our way to the airport tonight?

this is one of my favorite photos ever. several years ago i took a school trip to some telescopes down in new mexico with my photometry* class from C.U. we took a side trip into white sands national monument. we spent the day playing in the dunes, rolling and sliding downhill, making sand angels, and taking photos. i guess there had been a storm the night before because there was this giant puddle in the parking lot. pretty neat huh? if you ever get the opportunity to visit there do. it is absolutely beautiful. *a fancy name for an astronomy science class where you use telescopes with spectrometers to take data and use computers to reduce a nights worth of freezing your butt off at the observatory into a stack of numbers :)

it only seems fitting that since dee started all this that i show florida a little love. mom came to visit us in orlando a little over a year ago. we took a trip down south to the everglades and while we were there we made the long trek down to key west. we had some shrimp. and some pie. and drove back just in time for sunset.