It is November 16th, past the midway point.  As a thank you for sticking this out I am going to simply post some pictures from around here in the Northwest.  And I am going to sit back, pretend it is summer, finish being on call, and tomorrow read the New York Times, wishing I were sitting in a raft on Lake Sutherland. The photos above are, starting from the top, woods on the Olympic Peninsula, Space Needle seen through Cloud Cover by Teresita Hernandez (Olympic Sculpture Garden, Seattle), Mt Rainier sunrise from Lake Washington (taken by my son), The Arboretum in fall.