So It Goes...

It's been incredibly foggy the past few days, especially in the mornings and evenings.  Late afternoon it lifts, there are endless blue skies for an hour or so, then the misty curtain drops again.  Yesterday the sunset was totally otherworldly, yellowy-orange and consuming.

The fog is just beginning to blanket the far ridges as the afternoon wanes in this shot from one corner of my front deck...

An hour later, the landscape was thick with fog, the sun setting in a bright ball, turning the skies, the air, everything, this foreign planet color.  It was really eerie and cool...

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Went grocery shopping this morning for the Thanksgiving stuff.   I figured Monday would be the best day.  Apparently everyone else in the whole of southern Oregon thought the same thing.  Traffic was horrible, the parking lot was full, and the store mobbed.  Though, as I made my way home, I couldn't help smiling.  Imagine how much worse it's going to get, and I'm all done.

 

I bought a small turkey...and tried my damnedest not to think about the wild ones running up my road the other day.  Somehow buying a turkey all wrapped up and not resembling a living creature is far easier to deal with.  Maybe that's why I also bought two big bottles of wine.

 

Whilst shopping, I found a most beautiful Poinsettia.  It looks like it's been splashed with white paint.  I just couldn't resist the red, white and green colors...

 

 

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I'm going to work on the next installment in the serial tomorrow.  After doing the outline, I think I can finish the whole story within the next 3-ish weeks.  Frankly, I can't wait.  I have a few other ideas percolating around in my head, and I really would like to start something different for the new year.  We'll see how it goes...best laid plans and all that.

 

And before we know it, dear readers, 2013 will be just another memory.  Tempus fugit doesn't begin to cover how that makes me feel...