Autumn to Winter

On Halloween I snapped this autumnal photo (below) of a maple tree in all it's Purdue Boilermaker Old Gold n' Black glory here at The Ranch:

Keeping with the theme, this parent, below, wearing gold (OK; yellow) and black headed towards Oxville's Halloween parade is hereby awarded the prize for best effort:

As you can see, Halloween 2013 in SW Ohio proved to be appropriately gloomy, the dense fog creating an eerie backdrop for the night's festivities.  October went out like a rainbow and November came in like an iceberg:

The photo above is of someone else's ranch, this one located in the desolate hinterlands of Outer Hinterlandia.  Funny, the things you see along the roadside in Outer Hinterlandia:

If I may be so bold as to quote Jonathan Quayle Higgins III;  "Quite."

While You Were Out... for the past 50 years!

2009, +/- a week or so, marked the final year for the Tenth - and best - Doctor, portrayed by David Tennant.  The year consisted of but five episodes and all as "specials;" Christmas 2008, Easter and Autumn 2009, Christmas 2009 and New Year's Day 2010 when the Eleventh, and current Doctor (as portrayed by Matt Smith) took over.  Herewith, some of the highlight's from Ten's final year:

Xmas 2008, "The Next Doctor."

Easter 2009 "Planet of the Dead."

Autumn 2009 "The Waters of Mars."

Xmas 2009 "The End of Time."

Xmas 2009a "The End of Time."

New Year's Day 2010 "The End of Time, Part 2."

New Year's Day 2010a "The End of Time, Part 2."