Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you peace, love, health, and happiness, this day and always.

Carol Leigh
Chris Smith
And Abby the Psycho Cat

Daily Dose of Fall #38

Did I really say I'd do this "Daily Dose of Fall" for SIXTY days? What the heck was I thinking? Manohmanohman . . . And THIS post could have covered THREE of those days if I hadn't combined the images . . . I'm an idiot sometimes. But on I go!

These three were taken in one of my favorite October spots on earth: Half Moon Bay. Mounds of squashes abound, just begging to be photographed. So I did. ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #32

The shape of an owl on the side of a pumpkin, Half Moon Bay, California. ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #31

Now this is scary! ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #28

Seen around Half Moon Bay, California, at the peak of "pumpkin season." ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #24

Half Moon Bay, California is delightful year-round, but particularly in autumn, when pumpkins, squashes, and scarecrows abound. I found this vignette in one of the area's many pumpkin patches. ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #2

Pumpkin in blue. I like the complementary colors of this orange pumpkin set against a blue background and how the surrounding darker area of the photo makes the pumpkin sort of gleam. ©Carol Leigh

Daily Dose of Fall #1

In addition to my semi-regular postings, every day for the next 60 days I'll upload a different "fall" photo. Some will be old, some will be new, but it's a project that will keep me focused on one particular subject for the next two months. Spring and fall are my favorite times of year, where we celebrate new beginnings, the exuberance of growth, and then a slowing down, a time of quieter pleasures.

This is a cat in Half Moon Bay, California. He was hunting a mouse, but stopped for a moment to make a quiet connection with me. 

Wishing you a plethora of quiet pleasures over the next two months. ©Carol Leigh

Um, Carol? It's an aquarium . . .

 That's what Chris said to me. "Most people, when they go to an aquarium, photograph fish!" Well, what can I say? There were all these pumpkins set about and the light was so pretty, that I had to shoot fall color instead of fish.

This was our final rain-free morning -- it's going to be raining now every day through next Thursday, so we had to get out of the house while we could. I should have been home working, but I've got the rest of the week now to be shut in.

The last photo here is of a murre, just for Chris. It's not a fish, I know, but it's at least a SEAbird. Sheesh. ©Carol Leigh