In fact, pumpkins are popping up all over the place. This pumpkin population explosion will culminate in an orgiastic frenzy of pumpkins around Halloween, with prices for the orange orbs relentlessly rising right up until the holiday. The day after Halloween, however, the pumpkin merchants will be all but giving them away.
This pumpkin in front of First Church looks like it has some kind of disease.
The other day I stumbled upon an old memory card in the bottom of a drawer. What could possibly be on it?
It turns out the card wasn't that old, as the oldest pictures were only about three years ago. Still, there were some interesting pics on it that I don't think have ever been released. For example, I believe these are the last pictures ever taken of Doyle the Twig Painter. He is shown here pretending to read, because the picture was intended to go with a book version of the documentary The Twig and I but you can tell by looking at his eyes that he is blind and not really reading. The book version was incomplete at the time of Doyle's death in September, 2015 so the pics ended up never being used except for Doyle's obituary.
A selfie in the Dr. Seuss chair across from my house. Notice the old fashioned phone in the background, available for use by all passerby for the price of free.
Pedal People.
At first I liked this statue on the courthouse lawn. I admired it less when I learned it was entitled "Day's End." That sorta spoiled it for me, since it implies something tired and sad. I had thought of the statue as a giant steel monster descending upon the metropolis, which is far more cool. In any case, it has since been removed.
Here are some pictures of the bus stop at Pulaski Park in Northampton, taken before the park was extensively renovated.
In the end, America was not "with her."
Among the lost pics were these shots of the late Amherst blogmaster Larry Kelley, on the occasion of our last meeting. I never used the pictures in my coverage of that event because they were blurry and the lighting was bad. Time and tragedy, however, has since made them precious.
Taken at Amherst Town Hall, these pictures show how Larry typically entered a room, with his camera waving, openly shooting pics and video of everyone without asking, acting under the journalist's creed, "It's easier to say you're sorry than to ask permission." Too bad we no longer have Kelley, who died in a car crash earlier this year, still scanning the local scene, because the news blackout in Amherst has been terrible in his absence.
Finally, here's some early Halloween music.
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