Our Halloween man has been sitting on the porch with a pumpkin in his lap for a few weeks, and we just noticed that someone has been making a meal of it! Right in his lap, next to our door. The brazen critter must be sitting on his legs - what a sight that would be! Bunny, squirrel, mouse? We'll have to keep our ears open for that nibbling sound . . .

Cory is a happy guy today! He found another Toyota Supra in excellent shape, and drove to Idaho yesterday to pick it up. The trip went off without a hitch, and he loves the car, which is the 1989 turbo model with custom exhaust.

The proud owner.

Well, it was just last Friday that I was standing on dry ground in this area! By Saturday night it had filled up; obviously we had a bit of rain. If you look at this photo from Friday, I was taking pictures standing by the cedar tree that you can see at the center back of this shot.

And the birch leaves are all gone, except for a few lonely hangers-on like this one.

Rain, rain, rain all day! We went to see the "New Moon" movie, and on the drive home the sun shone through the clouds over the mountains. We drove out of the way to a viewpoint.

At the movie theater, Jamie, Jayna and Loren have the large size popcorn to share.

The pond is full and overflowing into it's runoff stream, and in the dusky late afternoon I take a long exposure to smooth out the ripples.

And yet more mushrooms in the lawn!

A wonderfully slimy white fungus growing on a log in the swamp.

And on a nearby stump, clumps of brown mushrooms.

The streambed is beginning to fill up - so far mostly from the amount of rain, but soon the whole watershed will fill, beginning with the pond on the uphill part of the property, it's overflow running downstream to fill the sphagnum bog, then the water winds through the flat forest area, with this being the last part to get the water before it goes into the pond across the driveway. It's always interesting to watch the progress.