Pumpkins

It’s that time of year again, late-October, when pumpkins seem to be everywhere – in fields and roadside stands, garden centers and grocery stores. Pumpkins are squash by another name with, usually, a color that make them outstandingly photogenic. Of course, some are not orange and some aren’t the usual plump round shape. Pumpkins are one of my favorite photographic subjects – here are a few of the photographs I’ve taken of them –

 

When fall is over and all the jack-o-lanterns have been carved many of those fields will still have pumpkins remaining, the rejects that will feed the deer and insects and bacteria and fungi. Until next year, good-bye pumpkins.

Patterns

Fire-escapes and outside stairways create interesting patterns and shadows and their shapes occasionally make you wonder “Why?” Some of them look pretty darn spindly and as for a wooden fire-escape – what the ... ?

Here are a number of each created in both steel and wood and very rarely both –

As you travel through various communities you may want to take a closer look at the shapes of these means of climbing higher or descending in an emergency – would you be comfortable using every one of them?

Chairs

We all take a seat, in many different places and on many different kinds and shapes of spots to place our derrieres and take a load off our feet.

Chairs of one sort or another can be found in many different places – some in which you might be quite happy to take a seat, others not so much.

It’s for you to decide which is which – 

 

Every one of these chairs has a backstory and a history, it's for us to imagine what those are. So sit back, put your feet up, let your imagination play and enjoy the end of summer.

Just a Few

Here are a few random photographs from northcentral Pennsylvania, taken with nothing in mind other than getting interesting photos that beg for a closer look to see all that’s in this small corner of the world.

A hot summer day’s a good day for a bath, but not in this tub –

A barn’s main beam with a nice joint –

Anybody for a game of chess or checker?

Well the tires have air, but it looks like something’s missing –

Speaking of missing, looks like something’s missing here –

A strange denizen of our streets, but I don’t think it presents a danger to anyone or anything –

A parade on the way to the parade –

In the coop – ladies first though this door –

Don’t let go, that glass is expensive –

At the gas station – a 1931 Ford roadster better than new –

Some of what there is to see when I take a look, it’s even better when I take a good look.