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Work Perks

Every now and then I really like my job. My workload is managaeble at the moment, whilst waiting for my boss' return on Thursday. The grandmothers (my boss' mother-in-law and her two visiting sisters) made us all biryani and brownies today, in addition to bringing in the leftovers of an amazing mousse-y pie with lots of berries on top. And since I couldn't do the office banking at my local branch on Sunday I took a drive up The Road Where Construction Never Stops this morning to hit the branch 5 miles from our building. Which would ordinarily be a pain, except that it's autumn and the leaves are just coming to the fore. I wait all year for this. As I was driving I didn't get pictures of most of the real magnificent trees, with their intense oranges and reds, but here are a few I was able to take whilst stopped:

This is from the bank's parking lot. The colors almost look more springlike than autumnal..

A shot of the trees across the street from the bank, next to a strip mall, taken whilst waiting for the light to change. There's that gorgeous intense orange-red in the background, probably my favorite fall color.

In the parking lot in back of my building, between our property and the railroad tracks, there's just one tree that's changed so far, but it's pretty striking.

So, pretty much a nice day for me. Now if only I could catch up on all my reading, get enough energy to do the garbage haul now that the landlord has moved all the cans in back of the house next door (so I can no longer drop off the trash on my way to the car), start that comics filing, help Robin update his portfolio... *sigh*