FTN!

Well, Miles has gone back to Hawaii. I can tell you that two months is enough time to get used to having someone around. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to go visit.

Tiny flamingo with spoons

Sunday morning.

The Great Pumpkin is pleased again

For the seventh year in a row, Philip Mitchell organized mass pumpkin carving and then displayed them all on the Seven Mile Ridge Road bridge. This is the third year there have been 100 pumpkins, which seems like the perfect number for the bridge. It's quite a spectacle. Below are a selection of individuals.



My favorite. Absolutely great in every way.



This one has a mountain landscape--pretty original.



Vampire meets neck--amazing.



Beautiful. This one says "Happy Halloween" but it's a bit hard to see here.




Genius.



Dramatic!



Aw, that's real nice.



The Pumpkin Pi is now a required part of the tradition.



Thanks, Philip. What a great thing.

Bread & Puppet at Penland

Many of you know that Vermont's Bread & Puppet Circus performed--on very short notice--at Penland this week. My apologies to anyone who didn't get the word; we only had one day's notice. Anyway, there was a great crowd and it was a wonderful performance--it's like they've invented their own kind of theater and they are geniuses at it. There are more photos at www.penland.org.

They don't get better

They don't really get better than this.

Ineffective communication

What does it mean? And how are you supposed to read the Web address at the bottom without stopping your car?

Celo at the beach

Paul Feldman and the Times


Contemplation


Jeff, Paul, Schell...and Margot head into the raucous surf.