Happy post-modern, Indigenous People’s, Columbus Day
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post.]
There, did I cover enough bases? Did I get it right (I mean left)?
Like many things, Columbus Day has evolved. And here’s a discussion of the postmodern Columbus Day (from Dr. Sanity, circa 2009).
As for me, since I live up in New England and the weather has been good, I’ll should just play it safe and call it Leafpeepers Day. They’re out in force now (both the leaves and the human peepers).
I plan to take an official leafpeeping drive some weekday this week in order to try to avoid the worst of the vehicular congestion over the holiday itself.
Here are some photos I’ve taken during previous New England falls. The first isn’t a leaf, it’s a berry in its fall raiment. But let’s not get technical:
The most spectacular colors are always the reds, which come first:
In the mist:
Fini:
A african american co worker said he hated columbus and that we should not celebrate… a young man..
if it was on the subway and not work, i would have asked him if he preffered borderline starvation, nasty deseases like lichmoniasis, and general genocide for every altercation between groups?
but he probably thinks that without columbus, and the british here, and all those imigrants of the top inventors and people that mankind produced… would have happened in other places where the despots controlled everything and created a dark age and so on.. would have invented and done what it did without the USA, its ideals, and so on…
in fact, most likely, he would not have been born…
after all, what population would africa have if the USA post columbus wasnt sending money, clothes, and food and tools and experts and so on?
Please share more of your autumn photographs.
Just for grins, google up “Beaver Wars”.
Yup. Peaceful, living in harmony with nature…..
It’s also Canadian Thanksgiving!
The misty pic next to last is a twin of where Nena and I are currently spending our (annual) two weeks in the Great Smoky Mtns. of western N.Carolina.Our Versailles rental on a hillside above the Little Tennessee River, 5-miles from Franklin. Baseball playoffs, magical Fall colors, lovely country folks…League Championship Series. Ahhh… Oh, and food, Food, FOOD..!!
Having watched your BoSox fall to Terry’s Indians, My Tiny CUBBIES fanatic watched the third game with SF through the 13th inning & past 2:30am to an (Evil) Giants win and, thus, another game today.
Big Pappi has been awesome & very classy, Neo. God Bless his journey to come and his Hall of Fame induction (probably in 5-years). The
…Tiny Commander has 500+signed balls on display in our study at home. All in anal-compulsive UV resistant cases. 99% acquired by herself as the Big League Bozos fell to the Cuteness & Adorability Factor. Hey, I identify. ((–:
NeoConScum:
I have spent time in that area in the fall, and it’s exceptionally beautiful.
Great photos Neo; thanks for sharing.
I especially like the VERY red maple tree and the falls colors in the mist.
The only thing that I don’t like about Fall is that it means a lot of leaf raking and winter is soon, too soon, to come.