The Colorful Time

It
was such a hot and weird October. Until it wasn't. I've never seen an
autumn like this one. I had to get out before it was light to get my run
in before it got too hot. The flowers loved it, blooming there was no
tomorrow.




86 degrees on October 8. The wind was like a blast furnace, the sun’s hand heavy. Yet
it was oddly cool in the shade. Meadows and trees go about

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A Boy and His Calf

This one lucky shot has had me watching the skies at dawn, sent me back on a four-mile jog again and again, trying to replicate it. I have so far failed. One of the funny things about this photo is that while I was composing it, the Great Pyrenees who guards this farm spotted me, and began to bark. I get barked at a lot, since you very rarely see a person out walking or running on these

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Goats and Mushrooms

These
goats tug at my heart. They're kind of doglike. I walk up and talk to this billy, and I can smell him from
about 300' away. The milky, funky, pungent scent of a billy goat on a
damp morning is something you can't miss. I had to use my best Google-fu
to dig up the name of the compounds that go into that smell, and that
taste, in goat cheese. They are 4-ethyl octanoic acid,

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