Scenery

[cozmik_cowboy]

Looking forward to leaf season pictures from everyone. (Reminds me of a couple of trips - a perk of a previous job - that took me to the DC area late October, early November. It doesn't get much more autumy than that.)

I took a couple pics yesterday, not sure when I will be able to upload them… the scenery in the Northwoods resembles more of a 1972 Fleetwood Mac album cover than a glorious display of color…

Paul (who is currently trapped in a strange technological sink hole making uploading and downloading things rather complicated)

Are you saying we're to late to venture behind the Cheddar Curtain for some leaf appreciation (and New Glarus stock-up)?

Peter

[pauldo]

Cheddar Curtain!   
I never heard that one before… yeah, even south of highway 10 is past peak (at least to these old eyes).


This year has been different; typically round here before the leaves turn color you can actually hear ‘a change’, suddenly one day the wind will blow and you detect a ‘dryness’ to the tone.  Then weeks after that the colors will come.


The sound changed happened but the colors this year seemed more staggered than usual where even some trees dropped all of their leaves prior to their neighbors even beginning to show a color change…
I don’t know what normal is anymore (except for Bill’s definition).


Paul (who misses the days when Deborah would give tours,  Moon Man and Road Slush were favorites - these days I really don’t imbibe that much, a beer here or there with a meal and a scotch now and then)

[cozmik_cowboy]

Paul (who misses the days when Deborah would give tours,  Moon Man and Road Slush were favorites - these days I really don’t imbibe that much, a beer here or there with a meal and a scotch now and then)

Being a homebrewer & beer geek (though not a heavy drinker for some years now), I keep a spread sheet of all the beers I try; brewery, city, beer, rating 1-10.

New Glarus Abt (made once, alas) got an 11...........

Peter (who gave Staghorn, Spotted Cow, Fat Squirrel, Dancing Man, and Abtsolution - another one-off - 10s; Stone Soup, Kid Kölsch, and Uff-Da got 9s.  Yeah, they are my all-time favorite brewery not located in my garage......)

[gearhed289]

I decided to stop drinking 2 years ago, but loved Spotted Cow up until then. Tasty stuff!

[cozmik_cowboy]

My brother-in-law took this one near his house; sunset in Morris, IL.

Peter

[David Houck]

Wonderful!  Makes you want to drop what you're doing and head off towards some place that perhaps is in a different star system, or maybe just a parallel universe four or five shifts removed.

[pauldo]

Wonderful!  Makes you want to drop what you're doing and head off towards some place that perhaps is in a different star system, or maybe just a parallel universe four or five shifts removed.

Yea, or just start walkin’…

[pauldo]

A few shots from last week.


On the roof top doing my Dick Van Dyke impression cleaning the wood stove chimney prior to burn season. 
A shot looking east on to Cecil's place.
A little fungus among us, with yarrow, wild strawberry and red clover holding out.

[David Houck]

Looks like Fall!

Built my first fire of the season this past Sunday morning.

[pauldo]

Wood heat is the best, gets right into your bones.
When we bought that property we spent a good chunk of change on a Woodstock soapstone wood stove.   A wise investment.   The cats love it, Woody spreads out on the floor and lays there for hours.


Paul (who wants to come back in his next life as one of my wife’s cats or dogs)

[Pete si]

Last nite in Staten Island, ny

[pauldo]

Traveller’s Moon.   

[David Houck]

Nice shot of the full moon!

[adriaan]

More indoor scenery. So what does one do in 1774 when a local clergyman preaches hell and damnation when four planets align to collide to blow up the universe? One builds a planetarium in one's living room. And it still runs today.

[David Houck]

Wow; is there a wikipedia page on that?