November is not

Not after today, anyway. And that means we have the end-of-the-month abstract to deal with, because it’s tradition now. Meaningless ritual. Completely idiotic superstition. You know the deal.

glitter trail through autumn needles of bald cypress Taxodium distichum
Definitely abstract this time, if not a bit hard to fathom, but this is the glitter trail of sunlight reflected from slightly choppy water, seen through the needles of a bald cypress (Taxodium distichum.) They were there, I had to do it, and I regret nothing! Nothing, I tell you!

Well, maybe it would have been a little better with a tilt to it. But beyond that, the regrets are nonexistent.

Okay, maybe a section of more geometric or even branches. But beyond those

Though wait! We have another, only an hour and twenty-two minutes and five seconds later.

sailboat in distance over deep field of placid water
Easy to recognize this time, yet still abstracty enough, using what little color the sunset produced. Absolutely no regrets over this one.

Well…