Today, for some reason, I am thinking about my favorite month: October. I especially love the light in October, and the long slanting shadows. I love the crisp air and the fact that we usually get our first good rain in October (petrichor!). I love it that October is World Series month, even though I don't really follow baseball—but the World Series reminds me of my father mowing the lawn while listening to the play-by-plays on his little red transistor radio. Really, he followed the Dodgers—Vin Scully's voice is a strong childhood memory for me—and may not have cared about the World Series per se, except of course in
1963, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, and 1978. (He would have cared about 1981 and '88 too, except he died in November 1978. It would have been nice if the Yankees had given up the Series for my dad that year, but alas.) So anyway, now, for me, it's the World Series in particular that triggers those memories. And of course, there's Halloween. Although I don't dress up in a costume myself, I love it that more extroverted people than me do. (That includes children.) So yeah, October: my favorite month.
Here are some pictures I've taken in Octobers past.
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| Monterey waterfront |
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| Sand City |
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| San Francisco |
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| Point Lobos |
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| Del Rey Oaks Frog Pond |
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| Monterey beach |
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| Carmel Valley |
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| Looking west from Toro Park |
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| Yosemite Valley |
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| View from high on Mount Shasta |
4 comments:
Wow. What a gorgeous array.
love the pics, october is my fave as well
I like October too--lovely shots.
"my father mowing the lawn while listening to the play-by-plays on his little red transistor radio…" talk about memories. this brought up more than a few. How was this ever such a seemingly universal thing? How cool is this?
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