Fall comes oddly here in georgia. Some trees change quickly, some none at all. We have four crepe myrtles around the yard. Two just dropped all their leaves, two burst into color. Weird.
Author: Mark E. Johnson
Fall of the Season
Aside from winter, fall is my favorite season. Spring is okay, summer, too, though not here in Georgia – too damned hot. And winter only if it’s a really good one – 175 inches or more of snow, deep cold snaps that send you huddling on the couch with cocoa.
Photoshop … In Real Life
Thanks to Khoi Vinh’s awesome blog, Subtraction (I read it just for the design of the page sometimes), for sending me to this image of a real-world Photoshop canvas.
Departure Time Approaches
The Traveling Time is coming up again. We’re staying put for Thanksgiving as I refuse to be anywhere else on T-day – if we’re not at home, it’s not our fridge that gets stuffed with leftovers … just saying.
Waiting, Again
Meeting downtown about teaching in Costa Rica (call down not until May 2010, damned academic pacing). Waiting to meet a friend for lunch.
Fall Arrives
It is a little late, and it’s still too warm, but at least there’s something more than green now.
Setting Palm
On the walk back to the car the other day through the University’s newly remodeled Caribbean Garden, the shadow of a palm floats on a tinted wall …