squeezing out some photos

A seasonal shot from the last local farmer's market of the year. These are eating pumpkins, not jack-o-lanterns. Anyone have any recipes for how to cook a pumpkin?

Mandatory kitty photo. This is Candy, nested on DH's lap blanket. Candy's motto is, "Don't make me cut you." She has grumpy old kitty down to an art.
At last, the orphan sweater! It's fluffy and oh, so warm! Got to get it delivered right away!(Medical teams International.) It should fit anyone from a very small woman to a child with several other layers underneath, and the sleeves rolled up. I am crocheting a belt for it.

In Dave Daniel's blog, I always admire his wonderful atmospheric photos of the beautiful old buildings in Boston. Portland is about a century and a half younger than Boston, but we still have a nice old building or two. This is our Multnomah County Library. It really is a monument to education and literature. High ceilings, awesome marble staircases, gracious enormous windows, and acres of books that anyone with a card can borrow and read! Also, on cold and rainy days, it's a warm, dry, safe place for bums to come and doze. Compassion lives here as well as nobility and knowledge.

Across the street from the library is a nice old three story brick house (Now a legal firm) which has been covered, freaking COVERED with ivy! Pretty impressive. And rather pretty. But the ivy is probably prying the bricks apart, and will one day tear tha whole place down. The power of implacable growth. Entropy rules!!

The laptop screen can be seen, through a glass darkly, with the use of strong light. I was able to pick up these photos yesterday by holding the screen in the last rays of the setting sun. Hooray for good solutions!!