Photos near the end of another week of work

When I run out of something to say, I can always post a picture or two. Today my brain is fried. I'm electioned out. So here are a couple of pictures to get us through the weeekend if some profound thought doesn't strike:

Fall foliage may have peaked. Here are some leaves from the woods near my house.

If you zoom in on this picture . . .

You can see what a jet in the air looks like from underneath.

No hot topic here. Just curiosity that accomplishes not a whole lot.

I read once that there are actually people who believe that these are not vapor trails. They are chemicals the federal government is spreading to poison us somehow. This is an obscure theory that does not rank up there with fluoride in water destroying the part of the brain that controls free will or how the government faked the moon landing or -- the one I detest the most -- that George Bush and Dick Cheney were the real masterminds behind 9/11.