New breed of cat?

Every once in a while you come across a cat of a different colour, such as this one:

Photoshop(tm) or food colouring?

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Fall colour

The fall colours are particularly fine this year. This is a white oak.

See fall colours in Ontario.

Go, red!

Red is becoming popular: “Red is the new black.”

“The colour of warmth, romance, anger, aggression and Christmas is having a moment.”

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Lawren Harris painting sells for three million dollars

a tall, bare tree-stump, silhouetted by the sun, with a background of sun-rays, clouds, and calm water

The Old Stump, Lake Superior --by Lawren Harris

This one painting, oil on wood, sold for $3.5 million at auction in Toronto.

I guess the Group of Seven is out of my price range. Perhaps I should look at the Beaver Hall Nine, a group of female artists who painted impressionist works around the same time.

Vacations

funny pictures of cats with captions
more funny animals

We’ve been planning our vacation for next year. Plan A was ‘way too expensive, so we’re paring back to just the two of us.

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Dahlias

BallardFarmersMarket76, originally uploaded by loriinae.

GrrlScientist has taken some lovely photos at a farmers’ market in Seattle, including these dahlias.

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