Fall Critters

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #96. Nutkin found a walnut!

Bees are still out and about:


I walked over to Schiller Park the other day to see who was there:


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Painted Ladies and more

My contribution to eileeninmd's Saturday's Critter's #47:

Butterflies won't be around for much longer this year. I saw these Painted Ladies at Schiller Park last week.


The sound of cicadas is gone already.

There are still some honeybees around:

The Schiller Park ducks (and geese, I think) will be around all winter.

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It Was A Duck And Stormy Afternoon

My contribution to Eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #44. We had a hailstorm here this morning, and after that it was cold and windy.





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Preferred Seating

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 304 is Please be seated:




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Saturday's Critters

My contribution to eileeninmd's Saturday's Critters #35:





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Barcelona Fence and More

My contribution to TexWisGirl's Good Fences #19.

This is the fence that surrounds the patio tables.




Here are a couple pictures from Schiller Park: Umbrella Girl and a Red Admiral butterfly.


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German Village Fences

My contribution to TexWisGirl's Good Fences #15:



I suppose this isn't much of a fence, but still:

And now for some German Village critters:



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Sidewalk Closed

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 297 is I saw the sign. I hope these signs are gone, soon.

I like this sign:

Here are some German Village flowers (and fences):



BONUS: Schiller Park duckling

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Jumping the Sharknado with Jenghazi Rubin

Sure, Jengahzi. What the world needs now is Governor Goodhair.

Jan. 12, 2006

The governor of Texas is despicable. Of all the crass pandering, of all the gross political kowtowing to ignorance, we haven't seen anything this rank from Gov. Goodhair since … gee, last fall.

Then he was trying to draw attention away from his spectacular failure on public schools by convincing Texans that gay marriage was a horrible threat to us all. Now he's trying to disguise the fact that the schools are in free-fall by proposing that we teach creationism in biology classes.

- Molly Ivins

May Fred Hiatt be infested by the fleas of a thousand camels for hiring this whackjob. Jenghazi's approach to any politician is simple: Is this person more or less likely to get America to bomb the Likud's enemies? By October of 2011, she'd become convinced that Mitt Romney was the man, so she relentlessly attacked Rick Perry. The GOP bench is looking thin for 2016, so now she's warming up to him.

I have a theory that Brian Kilmeade's purpose on "FAUX and Fiends" is to make Steve Doocy seem slightly less moronic by comparison. I suppose Rubin serves the same function at the WaPo for Fred Hiatt and Jackson Diehl.

P.S. Relief from the hackitude:

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German Village Ducks and Cat

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