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I haven't posted anything for a while, but surprisingly I only have fourteen pictures. 
    It's been quite the interesting November, weather-wise.  Normally it's snowed at least a few inches by now, and we've settled in for winter.  But the first snowfall we got in October melted, and we've had nothing but nice weather ever since.
    All the outdoor Christmas lights were turned on last night, though... which makes it kind of funny that it finally started snowing again this morning.  It didn't snow long - just enough to dust everything - but I'm hoping it will dump some more later.  :)
    Okay, here are my pictures from the last couple weeks!  Sunrise on the morning of the 11th:

On the 14th, I looked out the window to see Rex sitting on that post, watching us through the window... and looking extremely fat, which I thought was pretty funny.

Two from the morning of the 16th.  If you look close in the first one, you can see what I think is Venus in the top right corner.

The next few are all from the 17th.  It was so warm that afternoon, I went outside and went for a walk through the field.  First, the clouds (well, that one was taken from the house three hours before I went for a walk):

Then the sun reflecting off of about an inch-thick layer of ice on the pond:

It was dry enough this year that the water level of that pond went down quite a bit, so all the way around the perimeter, there's a dry strip of the springy plants that are usually underwater.  And on top of that are a number of snail shells:

I kept walking and figured that this was about the only snow we had on the whole property (okay, not really, but it sure seemed that way).

Went a little farther and found some coyote tracks over top of another layer of snow on the north side of a stand of trees.  Then I took a picture of the fort my siblings and I built last fall.  Something about that shot seemed really autumn-like to me.

I got back to the yard and took a shot of the snow-less grass.  (Sometime last week I half-jokingly told my parents that if it didn't snow soon, I was going to have to mow again.)

Sunset from last night:

And then these last two are both from this morning, when the snow started falling.  Just enough to turn the driveway white.