Another picture taken with my camera phone; I liked the way the red of the rose stood out in the dreary greyness of the day.

It’s fall! And after temperatures in the 90s last week, I am more than ready for the rain and cooler temperatures.

To celebrate fall, today’s word is: leaf

Chocolate makes many things better.

Michelle: I’m trying not to be cranky.
Michael: It’s OK.
Michelle: No it’s not; I’m failing.
Michael: OK, going downstairs now.

The light was better just a few minutes earlier, but by the time we got to our destination, parked, and got out of the car, the sun (and the color) was gone.

Still liked the way the roof of the coliseum looked however.

The weather has finally turned cool, and although we still desperately need rain, all we got were cloudy skies.

Decided to wander around the main campus today with my camera. Probably should have gone earlier in the morning when there were fewer people, but I picked a few buildings I liked and shot pictures, ignoring the students wandering by.

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Wandered around the downtown campus this afternoon (pictures of that tomorrow). The light was terrible, but I enjoyed the walk anyway.

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Went to the Arboretum today. Didn’t go very far on the trails, as my ankle is not up to those kinds of hills yet, but it was a beautiful day, and nice to be walking around outside.

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Noticed the leaves in the corridor as I was leaving work this afternoon. Took the picture with my camera phone, then cropped when I got home.

Pretty pleased, especially considering it was my camera phone. The other shot I took is up on Flickr (click through) but I liked this one a teeny bit better.

This was a picture I shot on Tuesday for my Picture a Day, but decided to go with another picture instead, so that left this one for Friday cat blogging. Which doesn’t really make this much different from yesterday’s Picture a Day, but, it is what it is.

Actually meant to try and get a picture outside today, but it was hot and I was tired and cranky, and then it was 9PM and I hadn’t taken any pictures, so, here we are.

Eileen Mary “Didi” Nearne was born in London on March 15 1921 into a large Anglo-Spanish family which moved to France during the interwar years; she was thus brought up speaking French. When France fell the Nearnes fled through Spain, eventually arriving in England in mid-1942. Eileen Nearne and her older sister, Jacqueline, joined the FANY, but their language skills were highly prized and later they and their brother, Francis, were recruited by SOE.
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On July 21 1944, however, she was arrested. Despite prolonged and brutal interrogation she maintained her cover that she was a girl from the south looking for work who had been asked to send messages on behalf of a businessman. Didi Nearne was subjected to water torture, being held face down in a cold bath until she nearly drowned, but did not crack.
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Of her time as an agent, she told one interviewer: “It was a life in the shadows, but I think I was suited for it. I could be hard and secret, I could be lonely, I could be independent, but I wasn’t bored. I liked the work. After the war, I missed it.”

It Gets Better

Because whether you’re gay or straight, it does get better.