Today I cleaned up this blog a bit, and in doing so created pages for each month of the years I’ve been doing this . . . over four years. Â In July of this year, I was not in a good mood about photography or what I was doing. Â My ego was quite into it, in a bad way. Â Burn out is not a good thing. Â While rummaging through things, I came across this picture from February 2014. Â I rather like it, though it is better suited for Halloween than Thanksgiving!
The Pin Oak is a tree indigenous to the parts of the US east of California – which means everywhere is east!  These are trees familiar to my childhood in the midwest and along the eastern seaboard, and I missed them forever once we moved to California.  There are oak trees in California, but they are adapted to a different climate, with much smaller leaves which don’t turn orange before falling.  Also, they are green year round, which is a blessing of color in a beige winter landscape.  And, they are as wonderful as the Pin Oak.  Yay, trees!
A scene from the local botanical garden . . . piles of Pin Oak leaves against blooming Mexican sage. Â If you look in the upper left, you will see some pink blooms still clinging to a tree branch.
No idea where this was when I took it!
This guy is pretty cruddy . . .
Ink, Yarn & Beer 