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| This leaf fell from the tall Sweet Gum in the background. |
Our walk on Monday morning started with blue skies. The temperature was very comfortable in the 70's. The dog needs more exercise now as I have found he has gained nearly 10 pounds since a surgery he had back in July. Both of us weigh too much now and we need to eat less and exercise more. We walked down to the west end of the dirt road because it is the most demanding physically. On the way down I spotted a leaf from a lone Sweet Gum tree. The leaves are beginning to turn read and orange and are falling. A friend of mine from Arkansas told me that Sweet Gum is universally thought of as the worst fire wood you can get. I don't know about that but I do know that it makes beautiful turned bowls on the lathe. I made one from a log of Sweet Gum someone in Atlanta gave me and when turned on the lathe, sanded and finished it bears a resemblance to Oak only with smaller grain lines.
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| I think this is Phlox. |
We moved on down to the end of the road where I took a very bad photo of the purple Phlox growing there. For some reason the IPhone cannot capture deep colors like purple, red or orange. I am yet to achieve a setting for those colors so for now we will just have to suffer with the poor color quality.
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| Come on try and take it. |
The dog picked up his daily stick to carry home. He likes to delay our return home by stopping in the pecan orchard. He will lay in the grass and chew on his stick until I catch up to him. When I try to take his stick he fakes biting at my hand just to try and scare me. Next we have to throw the stick around in the field for a while until I am really late, then we have to go on home. I know it's all dull and boring but I love it. Thanks for reading my blog today. Have a good Monday. Bye.
