NOVEMBER DAYS

The weather has been almost as annoyingly unpredictable as the Asian beetles are. It's frigidly cold one day, mild the next.

I was bombarded with thousands of Asian beetles one mild day last week (see previous post). Then a sudden overnight frost killed them. 
Or so I thought.  

On Saturday morning I was horrified to find hundreds of dead beetles piled up around the doors and windows. They presumably perished from the frost.

Dead beetles everywhere -

lower part of photo is inside the house by the front door,

upper part is on the porch

Sunday was a sunny, mild day and - wouldn't you know - live Asian beetles began appearing everywhere again, but not quite as many as last week. 

The allure of a mild, sunny Sunday made me temporarily forget the damn beetles and inspired me and my El Cheapo camera to wander outside.

Despite the fact that the leaves are shedding quickly, the foliage looks much nicer than it did in October. It was a wonderful afternoon.

I almost never take videos with my El Cheapo digital camera because

1. They quickly drain the battery

and

2. The quality is so POOR that it looks worse than an 1895 Kintoscope experiment by Thomas Edison.

The above clip that I took Sunday is only about 20 seconds. A quick glimpse of my back yard.

Here are some photos.
It was a perfect day for taking pictures - and the best part is I only ventured a few feet from the house.

 

A strange shadow taking pictures in the forest. I was wearing a cowboy hat, which is the reason my head looks so big.

Note:
I removed my recent piano video simply because it annoyed me (but I appreciated your comments). I will post more piano videos in the near future..  Jon