Day 343

The wind has been rapidly blowing down leaves and nuts.

Day 340

There have been a lot of nuts falling from the trees. They are scattered over the ground, much to the delight of the squirrels and chipmunks.

Day 321

More mushrooms. It's just that kind of week. All but the last photo are newly sprouted. The last one shows a decaying mushroom. The red ones must be edible, because all of them have nibbles, or have been devoured by animals. Any clue what kind this is?

The cluster mushrooms have melted down, are rotting and attracting flies. Very gross decaying process. Unlike any of the others.

Day 307

I noticed berry like buds growing on the Cherry Blossom trees. The leaves are starting to change colors. By the cherry trees, was a thick blanket of various nuts. Of course, there were a lot of squirrels enjoying the bounty.

Day 291

Since we didn't have power, I went to my parents' house to charge my computer, camera and cell phone. After they had finished charging, dad showed me the damage near the house.

This tree fell in between their house and a neighbor's. It fell over the drive way of the next neighbor. By the time that I saw it, someone had cut it up to unblock both driveways. There was a pile of trunk cuttings and a large root ball. There was so much debris, that I didn't want to risk falling on the acorns to get closer to the root ball.

There were acorns and berries scattered on the ground. This cluster of acorns was in a triangle.

In the evening, at our house, a red spider was making a large web on a lower window. However, my camera had a lot of trouble photographing it clearly, so the color of the spider and detail of the web showed nicely. Also, it was a quick moving spider. This is a photo of it resting after finishing the web.

Day 290

The morning after the tropical storm, the ground was covered in debris from the trees. There was even a leaf clinging to living room window. Later in the evening, there was a large insect caught in a spider web. One of the large spiders was staying by the roof waiting for it to die. Unfortunately, it wasn't dead when the spider descended and the spider was thrown by the insect while it spun in a panic.

Day 236

Today went were worried about the rain, but thankfully the storm held off, so we were able to join our friends for fireworks.

Intense sun behind the trees

Sun glowing through the clouds and trees

New acorns. This cluster fell during last night's storm.

I photographed this bird randomly while sticking my camera out the car window. I cropped the photo, so the bird stood out better.

We went to Byrd park with friends, to watch the fireworks. The sun was starting to set.

Crescent moon

I took lot of firework photos. Since they are man made item, I'm only including two for festiveness. However, if you look closely at the bottom left, there are trees in the photo.

Day 72

I went over to my parents' house to drop off Alex for a sleep over and to have dinner. Before dinner, I went outside to take photos.

This is the early sunset from their back porch.

I went to throw something away and noticed all the acorns covering this part of the driveway. There had to be thousands of them. Squirrels don't go hungry in their yard.

Mom grew moss along the slate path to their house. It's really soft and is growing over some of the slate. This small leaf was laying on the ground moss.

Their garden reminds me of the beach. They have all these yellow leafed beachy plants.