Butterfly Effect

Stoop pumpkins, not the weather, signaled the arrival of autumn in New York this year.

Look at the guardian of the Wise Houses on the Upper West Side.  Owls were the mascots of Dowell elementary school, my alma mater in El Paso.

At this time of year, skies so blue still connote September 11.

An industrious woman washed her gingko harvest in a Central Park pond.

The sickeningly stinky nut produced a mesmerizing effect.