I see a number of notes to myself marking submissions to be posted or discussed. Jean has a series in the queue, Joe has an article or two he'd like to start a discussion.

I'm going to do the easy ones first.

illinoisbeekeeper sent a couple of photos bracketing a day in the life - Oct 3, 2014 in this example.

Sunrise on I-72, perhaps Pike County, western Ill

Sunset turning west on US36 from US 385; Idalia, Co in distance

Travelling the Colorado Plains: I have see it snow hard and heavy in Denver on or around this date before. Hard to believe "safe" mountain travel may be over in a few weeks. Oh well, I don't have any more road trips planned for the rest of the year.

Though spontaneous combustion of my sanity has been known to occur.

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