The colors of the holiday (Halloween/Samhain)

 

Thanks to fellow blogger!

Box Elder Bugs...not this many, but I've got a swarm of them inside the screen/window glass. Ugh. I want to open windows, but don't want them flying into the apartment. I've had them about a week...and hope their season of living in the walls on the 4th floor of a concrete building is almost over.

No, I can't spray with insecticide, since I can't breath those chemicals.

With rain instead of sun they have disappeared, for now.

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Night shot of Cortez with Sleeping  Ute Mountain in the distance. 

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Would love help identifying the bird at the top of the phone pole...black with a white ring around his neck, and some pink/orange on his underbelly, but a white chest.

He was acting like a woodpecker by pecking at the wood of the phone  pole.

Sorry, - iPhone at 5x magnification, then cropped. 

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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed. I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

ADRIENNE RICH