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Week Thirty-one, October 15-21
Sunday, October 21, 2001
I took a damp walk with Rhia this morning and snapped a couple of photos - a close up of a rain-soaked leaf sitting on the sidewalk and a mist-shrouded look across Mason Gulch at the familiar madrona tree on the east side of the gulch that always catches my eye when I am on the west edge of the gulch. It can be a challenge to get photos while walking the dog, almost on a comical scale. The shot across the gulch was pretty easy, but the shot I snapped of a rain-soaked leaf was barely taken when the dog thrust her nose in front of the camera, as if to say, "Hey! Are we walking here or what?"
Saturday, October 20, 2001
We spent this morning working down at Puget Creek once again, this time with a group of biology students from the University of Puget Sound. It is fall planting time, so we plopped a bunch of native plants into the open area we weeded twice over the last few months. And further up the creek in some underbrush, we pulled a pickup load of ivy vines to prepare an area for more planting. Natalie and I left the work a bit early, since Natalie wasn't feeling all that well.
I snapped today's photo this morning in between pulling ivy. The shot is of a pair of mushrooms emerging from a bed of moss on a fallen and now rotting tree. A wide variety of mushrooms are popping up here and there in the gulch as the season grows more damp.
Friday, October 19, 2001
During a short break in my online work shift this evening I simply had to run outside and snap the photo above of today's sunset. The photo doesn't do the real thing any justice. It was a pretty cloudy evening, but the sun still showed itself enough to create a beautiful, pink sunset.
Thursday, October 18, 2001
Some lessons are hard to learn. We argued about one of those lessons at a board meeting tonight, revisiting an incident from this summer that upset some people who should be friends in the local environmental community. I can't really write about this much without running the risk of making things worse (as if anyone involved would be reading this Weblog). I do hope that things can be smoothed over and that there won't be lasting damage from what was in truth a pretty childish action on the part of one person meddling.Today's weather made a turn to more fall-like conditions, with rain and a southwest breeze. It felt good. It feels like home when the weather is like this...
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Instead of just sitting in the car and waiting for Natalie to come out of the building downtown where she works when I went to pick her up this evening, I decided to wander around the couple of blocks and snap some photos in the late fall sunshine. The air was crisp even though the sun was shining, but it was perfect for snapping photos of the old City Hall building and for taking scenic shots from Fireman's Park. Today's shot is from the park, looking east past the Murray Morgan Bridge to Mt. Rainier, which seems to float on a bank of clouds in the distance.
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
I popped up to the roof this evening after picking up Natalie from work and returning home. The rain that marked the early part of the day cleared away this evening, opening up the sky to show billowing thunderclouds in the distance. I am not sure if these clouds ever produced thunder and lightning, but they sure made for a pretty sunset, which drew me to the roof. And as soon as the sun stopped highlighting the edges of the clouds, the temperatures fell quickly. It was in the upper 30s outside when I went to bed tonight. Fall is in the air.
Monday, October 15, 2001
The American game of fall occupied my time today, so I neglected to get outside. Instead, I watched and listened to our local Seattle Mariners baseball team playing in a do-or-die fifth game in their playoff with Cleveland. The M's managed to win and ensure that I will continue being preoccupied by the games of men for another week or so...
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