Day 132

This is my across-the-street neighbor's house. I love when they turn their lights on, because it puts a soft holiday glow all throughout *my* house, without me having to do a single thing!

Day 131

Last of the fall foliage...

Day 130

Dressed for Thanksgiving...

Day 129

Beautiful detailing you just don't see in new houses...

Day 128

This from the side of a building in town...I don't know if it's truly an old sign - the top is a water pump...and the the wooden letters under the window, look like they end with "shop," but I don't know the first part of the word.

Day 127

It's beginning to look a little like Christmas...

Day 126

have you ever seen a nightime rainbow??

Day 125

Future Dance Champs

Day 124

Well, well, well, just look at that shiny new section of fence. I wonder why got that new section of fence...hmmm...could it be...because my DAUGHTER drove through their fence?? YES! Sheesh. She's fine, the car is fine, the ex paid to fix the fence, no harm done, but...sheesh.

Sorry for the boring picture. But at least it has a personal story behind it.

Day 123

Watch the gap

Day 122

Islip Town Hall

Day 121 ~ Skywatch Friday

This is actually the sky on Veteran's Day, before we turned to rain and foggy grey. It was a really lovely day...you can see we're just about at the end of our foliage season, as the leaves that are left are turning russet and soon will be gone altogether....

Be sure to check out other Skywatch photos from all around the world, at http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Day 120

"How silently they tumble down

And come to rest upon the ground

To lay a carpet, rich and rare,

Beneath the trees without a care,

Content to sleep, their work well done,

Colors gleaming in the sun.

At other times, they wildly fly

Until they nearly reach the sky.

Twisting, turning through the air

Till all the trees stand stark and bare.

Exhausted, drop to earth below

To wait, like children, for the snow."

~ Elsie N. Brady, Leaves

Day 119

Jim!!!

Day 118

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Day 117

"The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July."

~ Henry David Thoreau

Day 116

"I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content." ~ Lin Yutang

Day 115

Tom Turkey

Day 114 - Skywatch Friday

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! Uhm, no. It's sneakers.

For more sky shots, visit the Skywatch Friday site

Day 113 - or should I say NIGHT 113 ?!

the busses were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of schoolchildren danced in their heads...

Day 112

I know I've taken this same shot before, during the summer...but I got in my car this morning to head for work, and the flag just struck me really strongly.

I have to say, I would never vote or not vote for someone based on their race or color...but the fact that an African American has been voted to the American presidency is, for me, the cherry on the top of the election outcome. It makes me SO PROUD of this country, and of the American people, that they were able to make this decision, in spite of an issue that since the beginning of our nation's history has BEEN an issue, however wrong. I hope I'm making sense :-) *I* know what I mean. I just wanted to say I'm Proud of America today...and seeing the flag waving this morning just epitomized that for me.

Day 111

This was my view as I left the polling place this morning where I voted. Have you voted yet?

Day 110

Sunday night already...tomorrow it's back to work...how does time go so fast??