
So November is well and truly here. Late fall in southern Ohio sees the trees go bare pretty quickly, but this year conditions were nearly perfect for some stunning fall color. It seemed like it came and went so fast that if you blinked, you missed it.

I thought I had captured all of the autumn beauty that was left around our property (See 2009-Part 1) but Sunday was such a lovely day here in Nebraska that I spent a bit of time outside with my furry kids and captured more. So, I thought I'd share these images with you too.
Taylor Lautner's Shirtless Pics: A Hollywood Double Standard?Source: Yahoo
Remember the huge uproar in April 2008, when 15-year-old Miley Cyrus appeared in "Vanity Fair" wrapped in a sheet, with her right shoulder and the top of her back visible, implying that, under the sheet, she wasn't wearing a shirt? That week, the cover of the New York Post read " …

Thousands upon thousands of bright pink and red strawberry anemones fill the underwater seascape, as clusters of giant, white cloud sponges protrude proudly off of the giant boulders that rest precariously upon a slope that wanders off into the abysmal depths.

Do you like the colors of autumn?

Here are some pictures I did while I was off.
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China Source: chinahush.com
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People's Republic of China won the $30,000 W.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 won by leaping wolfSource: the Mail online
An Iberian wolf strides over a fence, its eyes intent on a tasty meal in the next field. This stunning image won the Veolia Environement Wildlife Photographer of the Year, organised by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Saturn at equinox - The Big PictureSource: The Boston Globe
Checking in with NASA's Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian system at equinox.
24 hours in picturesSource: Guardian Unlimited
24 hours in pictures - The Guardian's selection of the best images from around the world

I used GraphicConverter to do this
1. Trimmed from larger size photo
2 Effect--> Feathered
3. Picture--> Simple Brightness/Contrast: brightness a -6, Contrast a +28 Saturaton a +14
4. Effect--> Edge and Frame--> Twril
5. Trimmed to present size
Viewfinder: A photo a day for 64 weeksSource:
My aim is to publish one picture a day on Flickr and pull out 64 of the more interesting frames for publication on this blog over the next 64 weeks.

"Photoshop is the commercial name for Adobe's well-known and much used image-editing software. It has become so popular and well-known (even among those who have yet to use it) that the name "Photoshop" has become a verb, as in, "I Photoshopped this image."

I'm a city boy for sure, but I'll get myself to a stream or forest any time I can and Pennsylvania has its share. In my mind, fall and winter snow scenes are the best subjects.

Took a little trip yesterday and back today.
Autumn scenes - The Big PictureSource: The Boston Globe
It's that time of year again, the Earth's northern hemisphere is tipping away from the warmth of the Sun. Days in the north are getting cooler and shorter, leaves are changing, animals migrating and many harvests are underway.
Photo Gallery: Microscopic Photographic ArtSource: The New York Times
Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also a major manufacturer of biological and industrial microscopes.