October 2001
31 medium Office of the Port Captain in St. Florent.
30 medium The evening boules game on the square in in St. Florent.
Apparently, effect is more important than cause at this stage of the game.
29 medium Rooftop on the road west from St. Florent, Corsica.
28 medium Sam was just learning about gangways. The passage to Capraia
was his first sea duty. I'd have offered some tips, but he spoke only German.
He didn't get much help from the Italian dogs in town, either.
27 medium Looking over toward the "yachty" side of the harbor at
Capraia.
26 medium It was very quiet in the plane when we made the approach to JFK;
almost everyone was looking out the windows toward Manhattan.
25 medium It's another case of "Who domesticated whom?"
24 medium Bigleaf magnolia leaves. It's an event when one of these
things falls.
22 medium I know. I'm in a rut - small things in the driveway. But,
this is one of the strangest flies I've ever seen. It appears to have two small
white stabilizer wings on the sides of its thorax. The wings look feathery and the
snout is downright odd.
21 medium A mass of mushrooms.
20 medium Definitely not Jiminy's finest hour. Around the eyes,
crickets resemble mullet, and probably fill a similar niche in their environment: a
not-particularly-intelligent protein source.
19 medium The cricket was very lethargic, possibly a result of the cooler
weather or an injury. While I was photographing it, a yellowjacket attacked and
began making a meal of him. There's a lot of drama out there in the leaf litter.
18 medium It's less that 1/2" across and it was hanging precariously on
the edge of a leaf in the driveway, bouncing in the swirls of wind.
17 medium There was a heavy fall of pine needles a few days ago. My
neighbor's lawn looks like a mohair sweater.
16 medium Microbreweries even have better trucks than the big beer
refineries.
15 medium Dogwood seeds have tiny white hairs on their
ends with the stems.
14 medium It's hard to imagine that a squirrel could
find enough nourishment in a dogwood seed to bother with it.
13 medium The deepest colors seem to be showing up in
the smallest leaves.
12 medium Trees aren't the only things shedding in the
fall.
11 medium He was under the bark on the chopping block by
the woodpile. A 3"-long larvae of some sort, but astonishingly quick and
agile. He's able to flip 180 degrees in an instant.
10 medium Ants dismembering a dead hornet.
Presumably, they're already hauled the abdomen away.
9 medium Jetty construction at the
Ocean Springs harbor entrance. The red color was added; the first enhanced photo on
this site. (The blue in the photograph on October 1 was natural sky with a
polarizing filter.)
8 medium Looks like a cartoon image of a goofy stork,
doesn't it?
2 medium Outer Banks helmet shell basking in the autumn
sun in Decatur.
1 medium Paulonia tormentosa. Doomed by cool
weather and gnawed by insects, it looks like its name. The leaves are huge, about
12" wide.