One more to go!

 Yep, there's only one more chapter to edit! Our West Danville history book will soon be another step closer to being published. There was a frenzy of work going on with the book this weekend. E-mails were flying in all directions from Linda, Dot, Patty and me. So many that we began to lose track of the threads involved. I have big problems with long, continuous series of messages - I can never find what I'm looking for within them once there are more than half a dozen or so messages involved. We were running up 19 or 20 in the string! This happens because when there is a question, everyone gets the same message - and then each one of us responds to that message and then we respond again to each of those messages - and so it grows. Sort of like weeds in a garden. 

However, under Linda's guidance, we accomplished a lot yesterday and once she has handed off this last chapter and I get it back to her with needed revisions, our next step is to wait for our graphic designer to finish going through the photos and other images to weed out those that will not reproduce satisfactorily.  There is still a lot of work to be done and Linda has suggested while we wait for Randee to finish going through the images, we each do a final read-through to try to catch anything missed in the editing process so far. There are bound to be a few errors - just about every book has them - but we're doing our best to eliminate as many as possible before it goes to print. 

All of that aside, we have had one of our more spectacular foliage seasons here at Joe's Pond, but I really think we are past peak now. The weather has been chilly, and we have also had morning fog a few times this past week - pretty typical this time of year. Gretchen Farnsworth caught just that sort of scene yesterday morning and shared two views taken on Sunday. On the right, sunrise, and below, a little later that same morning.

Thanks to Gretchen. 

Everyone, stay safe - the crisis at the White House now is proving this virus is not something to scoff at or that we can expect will go away like magic, or be only a slight blip on the radar of your health if you get it. It is serious stuff and unless people begin to respect that and wear masks, stay out of crowds and do distancing, we may never see the end of it. One thing is for sure - it's reducing the world population in a hurry. I wish our president well, as I do everyone who has contracted this terrible disease. I just wish he had taken it seriously from the start.