It has been raining quite a bit lately, which seems to have both spurred on the fall colors and hastened the leaves to the ground...and the ponds. It's that time of year when I have to figure out what to do with the fish in our little decorative pond. The first year they wintered in a ten-gallon tank and last winter it was a twenty gallon model. Unfortunately Whitey, as Faith has named the huge white Koi, is growing faster than our tank selection. This weekend I lucked out and found a used forty gallon tank through ItsClassified. Cleaned it, set it up, and transported the fish indoors (netting Whitey is something of a challenge as you can imagine). If this keeps up I'll be buying a wall-sized tank or one of those fish-filled waterbeds James Bond and Tiffany used in Diamonds are Forever.

If you happened to drive our roads the past few, soggy days you would have seen Zeke and I out slogging through the rain. Now that I have a full time job again it's been an effort to remember to go outside, and somehow the breaks coincide with foul weather. Yesterday's perpetual drizzle almost cancelled our long walk, but the trees offered some shelter, the sound of rain on leaves was relaxing, and the woods were chock full of fresh mushrooms. I photographed dozens of cool mushroom varieties and will be posting a scrapbook sometime this week.

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