October Part I

It has been a remarkable month with many photographic moments. Over the next few days I hope to get caught up on everything. Be that it was so mild for the duration, the numerous tree frogs that have been hanging around at night through the summer persisted. On the 7th, temperatures dropped off into the low 50's which made the frogs sluggish. One in particular hopped on to my flashlight and quickly made itself comfortable due to the small amount of available heat. Carefully propping upright and using the iPhone flashlight as a secondary source, the rest is history. When we were done it did not want to leave!





On the 8th, Ava and I stepped out for sunset. A weak frontal boundary passing through kicked off a few storms so after dinner we went north for a brief intercept. Choosing what I thought might be the best area of convergence from north of Clinton near Heyworth netted the best of anything from this otherwise non-event.

Friday Night Lights

Though it seems like I have abandoned this blog, I have been a picture taking fool as of late but mostly just posting to social media. At the end of this roller coaster of a year I hope to at least update my site with everything captured during. In the meantime, these were sitting on the desktop and figured be worth a quick post. Back on September 18th we had multiple rounds of storms drift along and north of the I-72 corridor. Though only marginally severe with the worst activity having occurred much further east, they were all prolific lightning producers.

Delaware IV

All good things must come to an end but upon leaving out from Lewes, we made one more stop at the Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. I could spend days at this sprawling salt marsh where there were blue crabs under the surface moving about the common emergent freshwater plants like arrowhead and cattail. A very surreal place that for only having about an hour to spend with, was extremely generous.





















arriving back in Illinois, a fitting end to the journey greets us in Piatt County.