9-1-04: On the way out we found a patch of clover on steroids. This is ordinary white clover, the kind that's a weed in most lawns. This patch just happened to grow flowers the size of my palm.

9-29-04: Its autumn on the east side of the mountains. You can see the fall colors starting to show amid the evergreens against the white rock and blue sky.

9-29-04: A series of little waterfalls near Icicle creek.

10-31-04: Just before Hallowe'en Kendrick and I took a trip to Oregon to check out the mushrooms there. We were hunting in the forest surrounding Mount Hood, and caught this picture of the mountain with its reflection.

10-31-04: This year we were throwing a big Hallowe'en party, so I decided to do several pumpkins.

10-31-04: This one was actually the trickiest of the ones I did. I was very proud of getting the smoke from the hookah to look appropriately smokey, and the mushroom (an Amanita muscaria, the Alice in Wonderland mushroom) to look taxonomically correct.

10-31-04: Two different exposures of the Reaper pumpkin. This shot shows the outlines better...

10-31-04: ... and this one shows the details better.

10-31-04: My favorite of this year's pumpkins, the Dalek pumpkin.