The countdown to Halloween is on - you still have time to pull together a costume! You could be a ... diver! LOL

Rusty. I'm ready with the candy to give out. Don't want any tricks played on me. No fear. Annie B.

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It's one of those days I guess. Hope this one works. Annie B.

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Morning Rusty...where is everyone? I about spit tea all over my monitor when I saw what Cecil had done to Jenni! LOL!

OK folks, these fires are getting more in number and it is just horrible. The air today is just filled with smoke. I managed to get another picture on the way home last night. Doheny Beach...

Time to call in Smokey the Rock!



I haven't seen this morning's news on the fires - I hope they aren't heading for my brother again.



It's terrible - we all want to live in the woods or on the coast or on a cliffside with a wonderful view and WHOOSH - Mother Nature pushes us back from where we didn't belong in the first place. It was the same on the strand in Daytona Beach/Ponce Inlet where I lived for a while. The erosion was constantly eating away at the dunes and homes whenever a big storm would come up the coast.

Hello everyone -
Cynde - hate the fact that you guys are in such a state!!! The beach sure does look strange with all of that smoke.
I did mean to say yesterday that I loved the pics of the kids - both are beautiful!!!

Rusty - no I am not ready for halloween - but I did manage to buy candy the last time I was in Target. Have not done any decorating and do not know if I will - haven't even bought a pumpkin yet - we had too much rain this year and the farmers have very few pumpkins for sale - slim pickings.

MM, my clock is always spastic. It's been off for a year or more. I was worried that it was my computer battery running down but it seems to just be wacky. So I guess you have to watch for long overdue mail. LOL

Cynde. Is the smoke affecting your breathing at all. It doesn't look good at all. Annie B.

Cynde, no panics! I absolutely LURV what Cecil has done to me!!!

Cecil, it looks just like me, and I don't just mean my face either! You got some sort of supernatural powers you've not told us about???


I'm going off to eat, and find a photo of me looking like that. Be right back.....

Rusty - will do on the email!!
Jenni - I cracked up on Cecil's pic too!!! We need one of the real thing to!!
Here are some fall colors from Iowa (a study coordinator at a site in Iowa sent this to the team) I am so jealous that they have those colors - we still are looking pretty bland this year in NC!!!

Jenni, so you're saying that Little Nell is a relative. You never know. Glad you liked, I sure did get a kick out of it.

Cecil - it was just perfect. You know how sometimes something is working and you're cracking up because it's as good or BETTER than you'd hoped. LOL Wonderful! (Who knew you had a secret stash of photos of Jenni? Hmm?)

That's IOWA? BB and I just got back from the park and that looks so much like some of the pix we took today that I did a double-take! We were supposed to have clouds and rain all week - not a mention of a day like today. It's crystal clear - pix to follow after I resize.

Jenni, so are you going as Nell? Mary, kewl pics Well, I am coughing more today, obviously because of all the smoke. I am still on the inhaler and nebulizer, so hopefully those will keep things going in the right direction and I won't relapse...holy cow....

Rusty if you look real close, you'll see that same face showed up on the street cam in June. Speaking of which here's two more unposted Bonaire shots.

Another flower sunset.


French Angel

Not sure what I am going to go as, or not, as yet.

Darned scanner won't scan so I can't scan in my pic of me as Wonder Woman!

I got a new all-in-one scanner/copier/printer and I haven't scanned anything before. Been on the phone to my computer guy and we haven't solved it. I will speak with him again tomoz. And hopefully then I will scan in the pic and show you all.

Right now, I gotta go to this darned meeting I am President of. See you al l later

Ooh Aah! Cccil - very pretty bougainvillea against the golden sky and a great shot of one of my favorite fish - zee french angel! So you were holding out on us as re: the Bonaire pix. Thought you'd wait til we were really begging for more?

You have blue skies up there today?

*My* trees today - what an unexpected pleasure to see clear sunny skies!

The French Angel was to soft before I learned how to sharpen.

Hola to all, since(as,like) estan?

You wouldn't know it now - amazing how the unsharpen can remove a slight tremor or a miscalculation as to focus. Bravo!

BB took this before I woke up this morning. Is there any such thing as squirrel-proof?



A little visit to the park - two bridges built during the depression by the CCC.

Rusty - love the pics - the reflection of the golden leaves in the water under the bridge is gorgeous!!!!

I just kept turning around and around and snapping pix! The colors and sky and sun were all so lovely today. Filled the 64MB card up in no time. Need to think about the 256MB card at Costco for $84, I guess. LOL

Our Japanese Maple out front - so pretty right now.



And speaking of scarlet - an almost in focus cardinal outside BBs window this morning:

I am charmed with Rusty since(as,like) you did it with my name

Hi All,

Just got this from Michael...he works in San Diego...the smoke here is thick, but it isn't orange like it was over the weekend...

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quote:

"just went outside and it is creepy weird out there. its a real dark orange, and I mean dark like the sun just went down. all the cars have their headlights on. to freaky weird."

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Rusty, excellent pictures today. Really like the bridge.

Cynde, you all need gas masks or something. Are they diverting flights??

Off to dinner in a couple minutes - try to stop back after we veg out and watch a movie. LOL Quality time.

Rusty, I don't know about diverting flights. A lot of folks in San Diego are wearing masks. We have had to keep all our windows shut because of the smell and ash coming in. Get this...

Southern California is on fire, and 3 major grocery store employees are on strike...what else can go wrong? I dont' even want to think about it!

Cynde - what a mess - be careful with breathing that ash - you don't want it to get you sick again!!

Got to leave - it is pitch black and pouring down rain outside - not looking forward to the hour drive home!!!

Hi Mary - weather sounds awful. Hope you have a safe and uneventful drive home. Where is NC?

Cynde - you take care of yourself, you hear! Get one of those face masks on like they do for sars

Rusty - The photos are stunning. Thanks for sharing your bridges and vistas

Hi Cecil

Hola Minela - Son fantasticas las fotos de Rusty, verdad? - Aren't Rusty's photos fantastic?

Meeting was boring. Loads folks rang in with apologies and we hadn't got a quorum. After chatting and having coffee and biscuits for 15mins the few of us there decided we'd do most of the meeting [otherwise next month's will be a marathon] but we can't vote on anything without the quorum. What a pain! I would have loved to stay in and have quality time with Kev vegging out as Rusty puts it.

Gotta go to my bed. It is a-calling.


Going to get up early and speak with puter man about why the [new] scanner will not scan my wonder woman photo. I know it will be real hard for all of you to sleep not having seen it, but you will have to contain your selves the best you can until tomorrow.

Night Night Sleep Tight

Sleep tight Jenni!!

Jenni - goodnight - NC is on the southeast coast of the US - opposite coast from the fires!!!

Cynde.... Hope you stay out of trouble, I will keep my fingers crossed and send good thoughts to Calif for all the people who lost their homes!!

Thanks Diana! According to the news last night, they only have the fires 10% contained! It seems cooler this morning, which means the winds have changed and we have a westerly flow, which is good. It will know blow back over the areas burned, and there isn't anything to burn anymore.