Long slow slide to hell

Air temperature 30 F, wind near calm, scattered fog. Frost should stir some more leaves to turning and the inevitable fall. The barbarians are at the gates.

The beauty of change

Just admiring the blueberry bushes in the frost, at that part-turned point where some leaves stay green and others have gone red or deep purple or yellow. Diversity . . .

Not all idyllic

Trouble in the enchanted land of the maple leaf:

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/10/18/news/canadian-tribal-lobster-fishing-tensions-in-the-gulf-of-maine-turn-violent/

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In this political climate, a "moderate" is a person who is hated equally by both parties.