Day 315 - B&W Tree and fence

This shot was taken at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick. Original photo was in color and I converted it to black and white with Photoshop Elements.

Day 314 - Leaves and more leaves

The leaves have fallen from the maple and oak in our front yard and I have been blowing, raking and bagging them.

This was the third load this weekend to the county's compost facility and there's still more to go.

Lots of leaves and brush are piling up. The county will bring in a large mulching machine to grind up this pile into free mulch. The main county site (adjacent to the landfill) sells both compost and mulch made from the yard waste deposited there.

Day 313 - Squirrels and leaves

The squirrels have been very active feasting and hiding the bumper crop of acorns. These two spent a good part of the morning digging through the leaves to find the acorns. (The tree at the left is an oak; the maple is just out of the picture to the right.) This afternoon I went to load up bags of leaves to haul to the compost site and this one was sitting on the post. I was able to get my camera out of the van, walk to within 6 feet of him and take several shots before he scurried on across the fence.

Day 312 - Early and late views

The sun was shining this morning, but the ground fog gave an eerie view over the field behind our house. And as I was about to go inside at dusk, I caught sight of a bird flying to the tree above me. At first glance I thought it was a robin, but when I looked at the image (taken with flash) on my screen - it was a cardinal.

Day 311 - Still harvesting

There are still some fields that have not been harvested, while others have already been planted. This combine is harvesting soybeans.

Day 310 - Winterizing

Today the guy from WaterTurf was here to shut down our lawn sprinkler. He turns off the water supply and then hooks up an air compressor to blow all the water out of the pipes. The mist from the heads matched the gray day. On a sunny day I might have gotten some shots of rainbows.

Day 309 - Election day

When we voted late this morning, there was a steady stream of voters, but no long lines. With the registration roll on the laptops instead of paper, the poll workers quickly found our names, printed out our info, we signed and were given our ballot cards. There were two empty voting machines (touch screen) and we voted at the same time, returned the cards and were on our way. Afternoon reports were that turnout was about twice that of the previous few presidential elections, but I have not yet seen any final numbers.

Day 308 - The rabbit's perspective

I have posted pictures of this corn field behind our house many times. So I thought I would post it from the prespective of the smaller creatures that inhabit the field. And here's the rabbit who hid from the rain in our yard a week ago and then disappeared back into corn.

Day 207 - Fall along the GW Parkway

I was in Virginia on the George Washington Parkway this cloudy day and stopped at one overlooks for a few shots. Above is the view across the river into northwest DC. Below is a tree across the Parkway.

Day 306 - More fall colors

The maple tree in our yard

Monocacy River south of Buckestown

The road beside the river

See Marianne's post for more of today's color.