Changes in the weather can be extreme. Yesterday, the high temperature was 86 degrees. Today, we likely won’t get much above 60 degrees. I love it. The all seeing dog will love it. Some weather people are calling it a cold front. Maybe so, but it leads us right into cooler dryer weather.
So.
Fall fell.
We need something joyous. We’ve been cooped up hiding from the virus. We’ve been watching cities burn in the course of extremists pushing aside legitimate BLM protesters. We have an election coming up that scares me. I read a piece in The Washington Post that basically said November will be among the darkest times ever in my country.
I also read something interesting about veterans of foreign wars. The author said that everyone who served in combat served in hell. Eventually, a kind of recovery took place over many years. Hell receded into the background.
The vet who wrote this said that if the so-called Trump base decides to start what amounts to a civil war because their candidate lost, they will put the veterans back in hell. The vets know how to fight and that these wannabe soldiers with too many guns strapped to their bodies will learn about hell. They will learn that humanity disappears in a real war.
After all, the vets swore an oath to uphold the constitution. The far right owe their allegiance to one man. A bad man. One who gets worse with every tick of the clock.
Imagine reading this while eating your Corn Flakes in the morning. I about spit them out.
Is that where we’ve come to?
Talk of a shooting war on United States soil over the results of an election? Are the dark clouds really that dark? Talk of a new surge in the novel virus? Are the clouds getting darker?
God, I hope not.
I’ll have to fight or just leave. I already live in a third world Caribbean city.
Red leaves on a dark background with the sun shining through, illuminating them, is an eye catching display. At least, that’s what I saw.
There is an exposure trick that helps with this kind of powerful backlight.
If you let the meter pick the exposure the entire picture will be washed out. You can fix it in post production, but what’s the fun in that?
Instead, meter for the highlight, which is the red leaves. Get that right and the background goes dark. Not so much work in post production.
There you have it. A bright fall picture. The one that you dreamed of last night.
Stay safe. Stay mighty, Wear your mask. Enjoy every salad.
For the record, I don’t eat any of the food that I suggest that you enjoy. I don’t really like most of it, especially local food like Creole or Cajun things.
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