“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on,
and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings,
as now in October.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks
Hermann Park
Houston, Texas
A nod to Houston autumn
“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on,
and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings,
as now in October.”
I didn’t know that Hawthorne was a Texan!
Hawthorne wasn’t. The duck is.
I don’t know if I believe that. He isn’t wearing a cowboy hat or a big belt buckle.
He’s carrying concealed under his wing.
I give you a hopeful slice of life quote from one of America’s greatest writers, and you just want to mock Texas ducks.
Shame.
Well I won’t mock now that I know he’s packin heat.
Prudent.
“I didn’t know that Hawthorne was a Texan!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and attended Bowdoin College in Maine. He’s a New England lad, like me.
You crack me up.
I was joshin’. I am a great admirer of Nate – been to his house and everything . I love love love The Scarlet Letter. My husband and I drove up the NE coast for a “honeymoon” and went right on in to Canada. Had he not been along, it might have been a more enjoyable trip.
Sophie would live to say ‘Howdy’ to that duck!
Oh, wow, that’s a great shot. I want to see all of the photos you shot that day… post to your flickr, woman! 😉
That’s a cropped shot. I think in the original, another duck was showing his ass to me or something.
Did y’all go there this past Tuesday? I thought about calling you, but it was midafternoon before I remembered, and I wasn’t sure when you were going.
Do you love that photo of Sugar I used on Photo Friday? Her WTF look cracks me up. I think I shot that photo the day I bought the Nikon.
We did go, oh you should have called! We went at about 3. And we got some wicked shots of a nutria. 🙂
I LOVE the Photo Friday photo for today! It took me a while to remember when that was, and why the hell I was at your house in my paint clothes. But I do remember you taking that shot. — Sugar’s face cracks me up, too… this is totally getting saved to my screen saver slide show at work. 😉
Ew, nutria! Yay, slide show!
Yes we did go on Tuesday. Photos were taken. Sins were cast off to be eaten by ducks. And geese. And a very friendly nutria. And a squirrel.
And Tim calls MY life a Disney movie…
Hey now. I didn’t say they were cartoon ducks and geese and nutria and squirrel.
Okay–there should now be a Houston Hermann Park set open to my friends on Flickr. They are untouched, uncropped, unenhanced in any way–but they’re there. Let me know if you can’t see them. =)
Today I wore my wool hat, a hoodie, and had my fists in my pockets. My breath was clouding, there was frost on the windows of the cars, and it was still too dark for birds on the way to work.
Thanks for the above photo. You have no idea…
Yikes! I’m sorry the cold and dark are encroaching so quickly. I’ll try to give you lots of bright photos from here to remind you that spring will come again.
Mmm, spot on, that quotation.
However, I have to say that our trees here haven’t started to turn to their autumn colours yet . . .
We hardly see any autumn colors here. And after Hurricane Ike, our trees seem either to have lots of dead leaves or they’re confused about what season it is and have started budding.
Confused trees? Oh dear, not good!