Dave

Not a small treat once a week!! Goodness....the spendthrifts!!

(This post of mine is massively facetious)

Daughter is taking our granddaughter out trick or treating. Wife & I will dress up (astronaut for me, Renaissance outfit for her) & stay home to pass out candy. It's a new house / neighborhood for us, so no idea how much candy we need, which should make things interesting.

What are your plans?

A stand of yellow, golden and red autumn aspens with the sun shining through. The sky is clear. On the ground, there are some downed logs and a lot of different color of leaves from the trees as well as some grass.

The Pleiades star cluster through an #Astrophotography telescope 🔭 From Wikipedia: The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years. Reflection nebulae around the brightest stars were once thought to be leftover material from their formation, but are now considered likely to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium through which the stars are currently passing.

These two pictures are the same thing, just arranged differently~

Yellow Local Star
(≈8 minutes past)
Blue Distant Star Cluster
(≈20 light years past)

A nebulosity of leaves transfigure photons to nutrients.
A nebulosity of cosmic dust swirls in the interstellar medium.

my eyes to your heart

Another option would be to name it "Stuff Jesus Said To Do." Shame the shameless "Christians" that seem to be mad about feeding the hungry, helping the poor and caring for the sick....like Jesus said.

(And I'm not even Christian.)

For October overall, it has been somewhat warmer though. Perhaps that's why? Unsure, just speculating.

Yikes! And they tend to last for a short period of time. This is destruction over hours and hours.....

I think the worst hurricane I've been through had 90 or 100 mph winds when I was a kid in Connecticut.

This just seems.... Surreal. I truly worry about the Jamaican people in the path. It's going to be bad. Really bad.

This is going to be an absolutely catastrophic humanitarian disaster. I was just in Jamaica this spring. Even US building codes aren't meant to withstand these kinds of winds - 185 mph SUSTAINED! That's EF4 tornado level. And the interior regions may get up to 30 INCHES of rain.

I like to frame it as an either/or question:

"You can pay for this through higher prices at the store via higher wages for the employees on SNAP, or through your taxes now. One requires a living wage to be paid, the other is a corporate subsidy you're financing thru taxes. Which do you prefer?"

Saw three just this week in the early am before sunrise. Had to brake hard for them yesterday, and I wasn't even driving fast.

The Witches Broom Nebula (NGC 6960, West Veil) through an Astrophotography telescope Seestar S50 Planned for 2 hours of runtime, capture 35 minutes of 10 second exposure (≈210 subs). First denoised in Seestar S50, very light editing in Lightroom.

Back on the Spooky Season path…

The Witches Broom Nebula last night for you this morning. Absolutely magical.

🔭 #Astrophotography

When one person thinks they speak for an ENTIRE audience, and one that spans literally DECADES, clearly the person making the wild and inaccurate assertions is pretty much an idiot.

If it has to move, I have a piano dolly. But we thought very carefully about where it would go, and I can't see us moving it from there at all.

Thanks! Still very much in progress, but getting there. 😁👍

It is! Good eye...and, it comes with a whole bunch of disks with files on them, so it's a player piano too!

A Kawai upright piano is in a living room on a hardwood floor with a freshly painted off-white wall behind it.

I've been working hard to get things painted in the new-to-us living room the past couple of days. Why, you ask? Good question!

It's all so this used-but-new-to-us Kawai upright piano could set right where it is when delivered about 30 minutes ago.

I used to get a really good cup of coffee at my local gas station, so it's all good. I was more thinking the slightly relaxed pace of the coffee house compared to a gas station..

My 24" Moon cushion at the top, Daytime Moon Phase baubles in the middle and my Milky Way mug at the bottom.

Happy Friday my loves!🥳
Today is the day! Ahh.🤭

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Products aren't limited, but I won't be doing this cushion design again for a while, if ever. Baubles will only sell out if I'm unable to get more stock.💜
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I'm late to this, but....coffee house.

This is like the argument "Corporations are people too" except I guess now it's "AI is a person too."

Ugh.

I don't like any of the spiral ones.

I understand your point about fettuccine, though taste-wise, I do like it sometimes.

Yes, but the larger question is: How is Betelgeuse doing? Some of us want to see it go "Kablooey!" in our lifetime....

Needed this today... Thank you ...

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A screenshot of a forecast showing high temps in the 50's and lower 60's with lows in the 30's and 40's.

It is a grey, windy, chilly day.

Autumn has arrived - late - but well and truly here to stay.

Exactly. It makes me sad to think our country is in worse off shape for my children and grandchildren than the one I inherited, imperfect as that was.

Definition of a tariff being a tax from a Google AI overview asking "Is a tariff a tax or a surcharge?"

It's just flatly not even accurate. A tariff is indeed a tax, plain and simple. They can spin it all they want, but it's still a tax.

I love it when the colors are so vivid like that too.

Wonderful shots!

Lovely capture!