a walk in the woods

later yesterday afternoon, when our blustering winds died down for a while finally, i went up to a marsh preserve to take an autumn walk and have a birthday date with the lensBABY - much catch-up from the last 2 weeks, but i'm really not feelin too terribly into it at the moment, so i'm just posting this, along with perhaps of a pic of a new pumpkin species i have found this year (well, not like i'm a botanist who discovered it in the fields - i found it in the little farmer's market store, amidst their stacks of gourds, squash and other fall harvest) - some say it's ugly, but i think they look really cool - it's the ugly that makes them so interesting...

anyway, here it be, for what it's worth

the "peanut" pumpkin

hey forget about this one - while walking around at an orchard a couple weekends ago, i had to stop and ask this woman if i could take her picture - she was just too cute to pass up!