Fishing at the DEC boat launch leading into the West River. Uncle Tim & G caught one bullhead, but decided it wasn't enough to warrant the prep work, so they gave it to another family to add to their more successful haul further down the river. These photos highly manipulated to show details in dim, after dusk lighting...

a gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous fall day

road trip to destination south of Naples...

Beauty in every direction (back country roads! fall color! fast moving clouds playing with light on distant hills!) - but no time to stop to take photos, so I just pointed my camera out the car window and hoped for the best!

Sonnenberg Gardens

light fixture inside Sonnenberg Mansion:

at the Arts at the Gardens show (on the lawn in front of the mansion), my favorite works were by Hudson River Inlay - incredibly detailed marquetry pieces with multiple wood species and shell inlays, very inspiring
my phone camera's pics do not do it justice:

(extra endearing to me: every piece had a little ladybug on it somewhere!)

Fiesta!

the official opening tradition:


Photoshop trickery!

scavenger hunt...


Hombres:

protect the innocent! :)

and this is about the time when the Kimichanga Margarita-cam kicked in...



(sorry for all the blurry pics)












suddenly pyromania in every direction!







(Harry's bicycle that he rode from Victor)