Coming to the End of October

The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series and all the ball players are headed for their winter homes.

Here in Shamong, the autumn leaves are streaming from the skies. The colors are still pretty, but they're fading fast. The air is fresher. You need a heavier coat now. Speaking of heavier coats, the woolly caterpillars don't look particularly heavily clothed. We've seen several in the last few days. Maybe it will be a mild winter.

There was a complete eclipse of the moon the other night. We had too much of a cloud cover here in South Jersey so I didn't get any pictures.

I see in today's news that a new species of humans has been discovered on a tropical island between Asia and Australia, a pygmy-like creature that appears to have been a mighty hunter some 18,000 years ago.

Pictures of Titan, one of the 33 known moons of the planet Saturn, are being sent back to earth from the Cassini spacecraft and are puzzling scientists who have found no evidence of fluid of any kind on Titan which, we are told, is as big as the planet Mercury.

The political campaigns are reaching the end. Shortly, we'll know which direction our country is headed for the next four years - or maybe not. Many pundits are predicting a wild finish that will leave us all hanging.

It's an interesting world!