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Just 5 recent autumn foliage pictures for your viewing pleasure.
It's been mostly cloudy and/or rainy here recently, but I was able to take a few photos
on 2 days in the last 2 weeks. Here's 5 of them.

IMPORTANT - Click on each photo to see it better.

You know the drill - add your own photo caption(s), if you like, or just enjoy the other submissions. Your choice.

Here's the photo;



and my first suggestion for a caption is;

Yuck ! Those Trump supporters have horrible taste !

Just some photos of groundhogs.
They are also known as woodchucks.
However, they do not actually chuck wood.
It has more to do with the Native American name for the animal,
which was pronounced more like wuchak.
They do burrow in the ground making a den.
They hibernate in the winter.



They only live about an average of 3 years in the wild.
However, in captivity they have lived to about 6 years.



I talked with a friend, who saw a bald eagle pick up an adult groundhog, flew up high and dropped
him on a road to kill him. Somewhat creative.

From experience, I can tell you, that they can do a number on a garden.
Also, a few years back, I had one in my backyard, that used to climb up on a bench
to lay out peacefully in the sun. Truly cute.

With no further ado, here are 3 recent pictures of some for you to enjoy;

Add your own caption(s) to the following photo, if you like.

My first one will be..............If there's a flood, bet on this horse.

Here's the photo (click on it to see full photo);

July has been a busy month for me. Lots of personal and business goals to accomplish. I made a do-list a while back and misplaced it, so I'm only responding to immediate concerns and the long-term goals are nearly forgotten. Before the pandemic, I lost more than 10 pounds with nightly walks and doing training to start a new job. Being home for 8+ weeks and the weight came back. We were getting rain nearly every afternoon/evening and that interrupted my schedule of walks.
Unless it's something mandatory, like taxes and bills, nearly everything else is on hold.
With the exception of a pulmonologist (for asthma) I pushed back on doctors, dentists and testing. Some of that is catching up on me and I'm doing blood work this month. Dentist is postponed. I dislike the idea of being in an open space with my mouth open for 30 minutes!

Talking to my brother tonight, he reminded me I drifted away from one of my projects... scanning old photos. Last month, I found an old sepia photo of a young guy playing guitar. Sometimes my parents would write on the back of the photo who the person (or people in a group shot) were. This one had some black paper stuck to the back so I know it was once part of my parents photo album. Many old photos were damaged years ago. Stored in luggage in the back part of a room addition where a roof leak damaged many old things. I salvaged whatever I could.

If you've had something that was water damaged and stayed wet for a long period of time, that smell of mold/mildew is something that doesn't escape the memory. I had to toss out old Hollywood moviestar magazines my grandmother collected that were damaged by water. Lots of times I'll visit a clients house and remark to them "Do you have a roof leak?" most are surprised as they are unaware of the odor in their own house. A few have come back to me with thanks as they called a roofer after my comment and did have a leak unknown to them.

Although, we weren't able to identify who the guitarist was. His faded photograph will stay in the collection of family friends.

If you like, have fun adding your own caption(s) for the following photo, or just enjoy the creative ones added by others. Your choice.

However, no mentioning anyone on CS.

My first offering for a caption is;

Oh my god ! Put some fur on.

Here's the photo of a lemur;

For quite a long time I have had an intuitive feeling that there is no such thing as time. Yet I can’t even say that without recruiting the concept of time to help me in the denial of its own existence. My intuition tells me that what we call the past, the present and the future, all exist simultaneously and perpetually. Every object and every event that ever was, is or will be, just is, constantly. But how we experience that as the linear process we call time is a complete mystery to me.

Do we each have one consciousness that steadily progresses through this strange, static landscape, experiencing it as the passing of time, while in reality it is only our consciousness that is passing? Well not really, because that would mean our consciousness would be travelling in time. Do we then have infinite consciounesses, each experiencing one unit of existence? If so, how are all these separate perceptions joined together to form our overall perception of now? And could there even possibly be such a thing as a unit of existence?

As I am writing this blog, am I also only just being born, while simultaneously experiencing my terminal heart attack? Am I still a single cell organism? None of this stacks up, something is going on. Do the scientists know the truth, but are keeping it secret? Does the government know what is going on, but not telling us? Do I have to turn to Youtube for answers?

Nobody knows, of course, and perhaps nobody ever will. Maybe the limits of our perception lock us into a subjectivity that is simply impossible to escape. Still, such matters are useful for occupying our minds while we lay in bed waiting to drift off to sleep, which I am probably doing at this very moment in some unit of existence or other.

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or have fun suggesting your own caption for the following photo.

Here's the photo;

....approved of the bride'.

or have fun adding your own photo caption(s).

Or suggest your own photo caption for the following photo.

Have fun.