The trees this year have been as nice as I have ever seen. The picture at the top of the site was taken from my back yard. A good bit of the leaves have fallen now but the past few weeks has been an incredible display of color. As I drove into Memphis this past Monday there was some road work and traffic was backed up. I’d rather be stuck behind a slow moving tractor on a road surrounded by explosions of red and orange than behind a construction crew surrounded by a river of angry commuters anyday.

Not completely unrelated, here’s a picture of a view from the back yard of the Bemerton Parsonage, where George Herbert lived.