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< October 2011 >

October 1, 2011
It was a chilly day for a regatta -- or for anything else. Carry, carry, carry your boat gently down the stream. Oarswoman. Waiting for her ship to come in. Oars, get your oars here! All sizes and colors.

October 2, 2011
I hate it when flowers are taller than me. SHHHHH! Write me a letter, send it by mail, send it in care of the Birmingham jail. Corruption. I could`ve positioned the glowing sun right behind the cross, or gone blind trying.

October 3, 2011
Can you guess what sport I photographed today? I don`t understand the game, but since I just take pictures during warmups I`m not concerned about the score. Go Panthers! In this picture and others, I noticed that the little fuzzy hairs on a tennis ball extend outward when it`s flying in the air. It has been a long time since I`ve used the word perfect to describe one of my photos. Everything came together in this one, except maybe for my car fender in the distance.

October 4, 2011
The salesman told me it was stainless steel. The trunk of the elusive blue-gray elephant. It`s my guess that the installation instructions can now be removed from that second-floor window. Sunlight filtered by layers of flower petals. Moonbird.

October 5, 2011
An unknown tennis player is now on my computer desktop (see October 3 above). Finally, nature gets itself organized. New Asian restaurant downtown. Haven`t eaten there. Finally, nature makes itself presentable. I was all set with the car-running-over-my-shadow shot (see September 26, 2011), but then somebody ruined it.

October 6, 2011
Ow! Thanks for the support. I could`ve driven to the Schuster Center to pick up opera tickets during lunch, but on a day like today, why not walk? Sometimes words are unnecessary for communication. I`m reading the whole thing -- again -- all 396 pages.

October 7, 2011
Someone`s planning ahead for Halloween (a head, HA!). Every artist should have one of these. Just look at the giant prints you can make with one. This used to be a Greyhound station, but dog gone. Back when I had places to go, I spent a lot of time here.

October 8, 2011
Redhead. On a chilly morning like this, I could see her breath. Enjoying a late breakfast. `Excuzzzzee me.` Soccer style, senior swagger.

October 9, 2011
Fall is a noun and a verb, as these leaves will soon prove. I live in a gated community. Nice woodwork on this old door, but is it upside down? Did you see the `Trois Couleurs` films? Just one window and one color this time.

October 10, 2011
When a fella walks to work, a fella`s car is neglected. More autumn colors in a passing fire truck. Traces of a celebration. Second hand goods. Welcome.

October 11, 2011
Who`s going to rake my car? Rusty leaves? Hot wheels. Snubnose leaves? Whoa, it`s way too early in the year for pictures like this.

October 12, 2011
I had to use my car today, and left a cascade of leaves behind me as I drove down the street. That`s nice, I hate having to buy it. A mini-panorama, left. A mini-panorama, right. `Work` means different things to different people.

October 13, 2011
You step inside but you don`t see too many faces coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down. DIRE STRAITS Billie in brick. Keigo Hirakawa at the keyboard. Eric Hergenroether on drums. And Wade Baker playing trumpet.

October 14, 2011
Go ahead, try to take the ball away from this guy. It`s up! It`s good! A twisted mind designed the American football. Sideline maintenance. One person connects with my camera.

October 15, 2011
At a traffic light. In a public park. On a sunny porch. The road to nowhere. It followed me from the city into the country.

October 16, 2011
I came to tonight`s concert all ready to hear a friend sing, take some pictures, and record the performance. But then I happened to look in the program. I wonder how they define `strictly forbidden.` So I reluctantly put away my camera, but not before taking a picture of the shoes worn by someone sitting to my left. Fortunately, my audio recorder is much less conspicuous than my camera. In a manner of speaking, this is a photo of the concert.

October 17, 2011
Land ho! It`s mid-October, so last call for monarchs. Can this one make it all the way to Mexico with a badly torn right wing? Okay, so there`s `work` and then there`s `labor` (see October 12 above). I work daily, but hardly ever labor. Hanging around Fifth Street. Unknown person suspended between two trees.

October 18, 2011
There`s someone buried in the ground (see the hand?), but they somehow managed to create and post a sign. Remember the hood design on the Firebird Trans-Am? Do not accept candy from this clown. Tuning up before the concert. Last-minute warmup in the hall.

October 19, 2011
When I started this Web page 2,704 days ago, I said that I would put five `interesting` photos online every day. While the quantity of pictures I`ve taken has far exceeded my expectations, their quality is often less than desired. I have long since given up the hope of displaying only interesting photos and I often settle for whatever I can get. For instance, today at work I took pictures for a small task and then didn`t pick up my camera for the rest of the day. So I suppose these are the most interesting photographs I took today, and they deserve to be shared with the world.

October 20, 2011
Tonight`s dinner. Tomorrow`s lunch. Yesterday`s announcement of this new camera has now made mine obsolete. It`s not available until March, so you have time to save the $6,800 needed to buy one for me. As a powerful member of the media elite, I receive lots of free swag. A clue to why all my recent pictures were taken indoors.

October 21, 2011
Suburban Dayton kids dance like they`re from LA. Converse shoes . . . with Nike socks? That can`t be healthy. `Anybody seen my hat?` Competition was fierce at the Funk Lab tonight.

October 22, 2011
A few more inches of fat, and I`ll be ready to hibernate. How other people take pictures. No more cherries. Remnants of summer in an autumn landscape. This morning the entire prairie crackled, dripped and steamed as the sun burned away the frost.

October 23, 2011
Someone`s smelly shoes? One 1 I. I never knew birds in flight retracted their landing gear. Today was mostly about the sun, since it was Sunday. Earlier in the day, I had sung a song about this flag, accompanied by an orchestra and about 2,000 people.

October 24, 2011
A butterfly was nearby, but declined to be photographed. Prelude to bare branches and gray skies. In modern society, privacy is quickly being eroded. At the time, it made sense to take this picture. Special trash?

October 25, 2011
Highway abstract. An evergreen tree with leaves. Total eclipse of the trash can. Traveler in a rose-scented landscape. Follow the follow the follow the follow the follow the yellow brick wall.

October 26, 2011
For some reason, my Web site was very popular last December, but public interest has fluctuated since then. The busiest day so far this month has been October 19, when I offered a free toaster to everyone who visited. My Web site sees the heaviest activity around 4:00pm, although I have no idea what time zone this chart refers to. The most frequent visitor this month is someone at the University of Dayton. The second most frequent is me. I get occasional hits from other countries, but they`re mostly hackers trying to take control of my Web site.

October 27, 2011
I take pictures of autumn out of a sense of obligation. People fill their bird feeders when the weather is nice, which is not when the birds need it. I accidentally took some good pictures today. Rose drops. Everybody has a dark side.

October 28, 2011
When there`s no more fuel for cars, what will happen to all of the parking garages? After eight years, the Schuster Center still sparkles. Time machine. Complete system failure. What do the Occupy protesters want, and how do they hope to achieve it by standing around on the sidewalk?

October 29, 2011
Which one of them will drive home? A simple and effective costume. Uhmm . . . okay. Clowns used to be nice. Las tres amigas.

October 30, 2011
Last night`s robot costume is this morning`s trash. My reflection isn`t visible, thus proving that I`m a vampire. Urban art installation by Tracy Kraft. Fall wall. On top of the world.

October 31, 2011
During Saturday night`s Halloween party, this was the Oregon Hysteric District, but it`s back to normal now. After the grown-up party, costumed kids seem harmless. It was still bright outside when beggar`s night began. Halloween is just one of many occasions that other people get excited about and I quite happily ignore. How doth that visage languish which once was bright as morn.

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