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< October 2005 >

October 1, 2005
Hint: it goes `quack.` Where ballet slippers come from. Get some air. Click this link. High berries.

October 2, 2005
Under a giant parasol. Looking for her husband Herb. The human body has 100,000 miles of blood vessels. Autumnal panoply. One of the world`s most hazardous occupations: photographer of children.

October 3, 2005
You don`t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. RAY BRADBURY Memories of Mary. Are you nuts? Linus was right! Some holidays I just have to wonder about . . .

October 4, 2005
Nobody home. I found the prairie. Where`s the little house? You can run -- er, hop -- but you can`t hide. Not a pumpkin field, or a pumpkin garden; it`s a pumpkin PATCH. I don`t always shoot small things. But just don`t ask me to show the WHOLE tree.

October 5, 2005
Oh great, the stained glass has stained the rug. I had the urge to play some Bach today, but had to borrow a piano to do it. The standoff. Never take pictures looking into the sun. [I`m typing this on a Braille keyboard] `Don`t be shy, Orville. When the music starts, you just kind of lead her around the dance floor like this.`

October 6, 2005
The road less traveled. I guess I`m not the first human here. Brought closer together by death. Picnic season is coming to an end. Visit Mount St. John and the Marianist Environmental Education Center, at 4435 East Patterson Road.

October 7, 2005
Twin peaks. Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support `tank killer.` Considering it`s October 7, this shows great optimism. Someone`s knockin` at the door. Somebody`s ringin` the bell. Fortunately, not a doorbell.

October 8, 2005
If I only had a brain. No it`s NOT the same shot as September 17. It`s a different park entirely. Anyone with a functional shutter finger could make a nice picture out of this. She misses me something awful. A functional shutter finger and a decent lens are required for this shot.

October 9, 2005
Elvis has a Transylvanian accent. Or Dracula sounds like he`s from Mississippi. Becoming a goblin. This Web page now has 20% more bran fiber. At a recent photo workshop, the presenter said he carried a spray bottle to create his own dew and raindrops . . . . . . but you can be sure mine are all-natural.

October 10, 2005
If you feel like complaining about something today -- don`t. I see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower. WILLIAM BLAKE Bath night can be a little embarrassing. I need one of those. At the Church of the Sacred Heart.

October 11, 2005
Berry, berry colorful. Future Christmas tree. Visitor from Sleepy Hollow. It`s not that I don`t trust you . . . That`s not dew, considering this was taken in the evening.

October 12, 2005
Two types of lights -- one won`t burn out for another few billion years. The file name for this image is `deadgraything.jpg.` Georgia O`Keefe would have loved it. Very helpful to get through a class where we just watch movies. Today`s flower with drops of mysterious evening water.

October 13, 2005
Suspended animation. It`s getting late . . . . . . the sun is setting . . . . . . time to call it a night. Reminiscence of my first photo on May 25, 2004.

October 14, 2005
This is how much time I had to shoot five pictures. Laundry day. .msitoirtaP Made for each other. On Friday afternoons, I`m usually ready to climb the wall.

October 15, 2005
Outrageous wedding costs force many couples to elope. He makes it look easy. I`m good at keeping a lot of balls in the air. Coming home to roost. Sworn to prevent geese from roosting.

October 16, 2005
Uh, yeah, that`s fine, just park against my bumper. Backyard potentate. You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out; you put your right foot in, and you shake it all about. The UD pep band plays its first bookstore gig. Music education.

October 17, 2005
It`s not just the barn, it`s an entire lifestyle that`s deteriorating. Fly high with books! Normally I shoot them individually, but thought I could save some time this way. An unappetizing slate black color. What happens to these when frost comes?

October 18, 2005
Asian ladybugs take jobs away from American ladybugs. This column will outlast those leaves, but leaves will outlast columns. Helplessly trapped in a sea of lime Jell-O. A floating constellation. TLEJD BPOKSA GVITRS?

October 19, 2005
Sweet little Jesus boy, born long time ago. Yellow-bellied. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. Better hurry before somebody snaps this baby up. [See June 3, 2004] Why do I waste my time going to the eye doctor? I can see just fine.

October 20, 2005
Library graffiti. A bicycle spoke -- but did anyone listen? That would be a great place for a concert. See what I mean? Style of dress for the concert varied widely, sometimes even on the same person.

October 21, 2005
Bass in the dark. Think I can pick up the spare? It was cold and rainy -- a perfect day for ice cream. A pumpkin is a goUrD. What I take pictures of when it`s cold and rainy.

October 22, 2005
Coxbridge. Sounds like a town in England. The living among the dead. Last of the season, get them while you can. Bonfires and pumpkins, Leaves sailing down - October is red And golden and brown. Storm warning.

October 23, 2005
Got grammar? The kids who go here will have a hard time spelling the word right. Urban renewal. I hope the people had time to get out. The only thing left standing.

October 24, 2005
Tree by daylight. Tree by headlight. It was a McDark and McStormy night. I just really like this building at night. Car wreck at Third and St. Clair.

October 25, 2005
It sits quietly all through class. I hate to put a damper on the situation. It`s not a piano, it`s an ebony beverage coaster! Not many chose to dine on the patio this evening. Astute readers should be concerned by pictures taken at night, since they demonstrate my lack of enthusiasm.

October 26, 2005
October . . . decks herself in garments bold Of scarlet, purple, red, and gold. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Pumpkin gittin` good an` yallah . . . Jes` a-la`in` dah sayin` `pies.` PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR When a dewdrop is all you have, you guard it jealously. I intended to shoot this yesterday while it said 2000, but while I delayed another U.S. soldier has died in Iraq. Not another reality TV show!

October 27, 2005
I`m sure these shoes will come back in style. See gull? Boy, he really knocked the cover offa that one. Earth was unprepared for the deadly force of the giant leaf from outer space. Suburban pigeons were unprepared for a red-tailed hawk in their shopping center parking lot.

October 28, 2005
It`s for you. [The shoes are still in there from yesterday] Jack is back. I`d like you to meet my friend Shelly. Commemorating the Mexican Day of the Dead. Usually it`s just my captions that are corny.

October 29, 2005
Tonight is the Oregon District Halloween Potty -- er, Party. There`s something a little odd about my new neighbors. It`s been a wet autumn so far. If you live near Dayton, this is where your water comes from. Prairie fairies.

October 30, 2005
`Wait! I`m still in here!` I guess the party got a little out of hand. Lose something? Dayton voters have to make a tough choice in the mayoral election: a Democrat -- or a Democrat. Enjoy the bloom and sun while it lasts.

October 31, 2005
Same statue as October 6, from another angle and at a different time of day. I tried to take another one, but the sun disappeared too quickly. And speaking of disappearing fast . . . A random sampling of autumn. Now that`s spooky.

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