NaNo has Struck!

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Tom Harold

It’s that time of year again, folks! My life is officially being swallowed by the worldwide phenomena known as National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo to those of us who talk about it so much we have to shorten it. The challenge is to write a novel of not less than fifty thousand words in thirty days. I did it last year, got 76K of a 92K novel written in thirty days. I hope to be a lot closer to finishing my novel this year at the end of the month rather than dragging it out for an additional seven months afterward as I did last year.

It is very likely that my life will devolve into me spending most of my time at my laptop writing for the next thirty days. It is highly likely that posts here will become erratic and that you may not see the picture posts put up in a very timely manner. Rest assured, I’m not dead or sequestered on jury duty. I’m just writing a novel. A whole novel. In a month.

And then there were None

Posted on October 31, 2009 by Tom Harold

That didn’t take long, did it? Glad I got all those shots of the leaves on the trees while the weather was good. They all disappeared in the space of about a week.

Little Bug

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Tom Harold

Definitely not my finest work. Quite shaky, but the subject is so cute it helps redeem me just a tiny bit. I was overrun with work and tired this day, and I only took six pictures, and three of them were of this little girl, and this was the best. Kind of pathetic, that, but there are some days where that’s all I’ve got in me.

Early Drive

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Tom Harold

A little shaky this morning. This was before daylight savings kicked in, and we had a few mornings that looked more like night.

Squashed

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Tom Harold

What happens when Tom and the kitchen meet: acorn squash, butter, apricot preserves. I’m no gourmet by any means, but I can occasionally pull off something other than a microwave burrito. These are also good if you sub brown sugar for the apricot preserves.

Pileup

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Tom Harold

Another night that wiped me out. I was doing so much other work that I almost forgot to even shoot anything. This one was barely remembered before I went to bed.

Woody wood wood

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Tom Harold

I was so exhausted Monday that I only took three pictures all day, and two of them were of this right here. I went up to mom and dad’s to say hello. Ended up hanging out with dad and we talked about some wood for some rolling ball sculpture projects I have going on (okay, they’ll be going on sometime kind of soon…I hope). So we went through his scraps and found some nice stuff. Should look when it’s done. For now, well, it’s just pieces of wood, I guess. I just couldn’t make anything else happen tonight, went home and almost immediately went to bed.

Letting the sun in

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Tom Harold

Finally got some sun today! Had to go out and shoot the leaves again. Gotta take advantage of the sun in fall. I know this subject is getting a lot of coverage from me, but in another week or so there won’t be any leaves on the trees, and then all I can show is mud and rain. Bah!

Lookin’ Out My Back Door

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Tom Harold

Actually, really it’s looking toward my side yard, but yanno, there’s no song with that lyric. I’m working with what I got at the moment.

Covered with Color

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Tom Harold

It rained this week and brought a lot of the leaves to the ground. Now my yard looks like it’s blanketed with oranges and reds and browns and yellows. It really looks kind of magical when it’s like this. Makes it nice to pull up in the driveway. This is definitely one of the highest highlights of living in the Midwest. Simply beautiful, even on a cloudy day like today.