November 18

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Another nice blue day.

Still some color in the landscape, hurray!

Wilbur had a 6-month checkup.  I take the oldsters in, just in case, every six months rather than only once a year.  He got a clean bill of health; all tests normal.  Yay.

He says he can think of better ways to celebrate his birthday (which is some time in November, probably), but he likes to visit his friends at the vet.  He was ok until they drew blood, and then he was really ready to be DONE.

I think this is a sweet gum leaf.

Our Friday skies had something different, which I can't show you because I wasn't quick enough.  For some reason, someone thought it would be a good idea to fly F16 fighter jets over the stadium during the game on Saturday. Those planes thundered, low and fast, over Ann Arbor on Thursday (though I didn't see them then, only heard them) and Friday. I saw them three or four times as Wilbur and I walked.

They were very loud, very close together, and very fast. I tried to get a pic, but was way too slow. I should have set up video mode and waited with the camera running.... I had the little camera, which would not have captured the NOISE.....

I am so thankful that our daily life does not include the presence of such machines.

Peaceful sky; no fighter jets.

Welcome to the neighborhood, new little Bradford pear!

Same sweet gum leaf, in my fancy schmancy photographic studio (a piece of printer paper, near a window).

I wonder if this can be from the same sweet gum tree.  It looks so different.....

Backside of same leaf.

Bradford pear leaf (not from the little tree, from a different tree).

Same leaf, with a piece of paper I found at the end of my driveway.  Folded just as it was when I found it.

Evening color in the eastern sky.

And in the western sky.

I love trees, but they do mess up my view of the sunset!

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