Tennis Bubbles in Sunlight

This month of miserable weather is ready to end. Too much rain and too much gray dominated. Therefore when the sun shines a little it's a good idea to have your camera ready. These are the twin bubbles at Fred Wells Tennis Center at Fort Snelling where I play twice a week, most weeks. The blue stuff between the clouds is the sky in its natural color.



We played two and a half sets, finished on time and with a satisfying percentage of decent back and forth points. Tennis continues even on the last day of the rainiest October on record in the People's Republic of Minnesota. And since it's Halloween and the candy requesting children of the republic are out and about, it was nice to see a mostly dry day. I'm not sure how this custom of giving candy to other people's children got to where it is, but it seems like it might be a good idea to curtail it a bit. Halloween has always inaugurated the eating season, followed by the other big food holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. A later start to the season might cut into our national obesity epidemic. Who knows?

Because October acted like November, is it possible that November will act like a normal October?

World Series action in Philadelphia is scheduled for tonight. To me, at least, baseball should be played in warm weather. November in Philly for the Series just feels wrong. Maybe they should hold it on a neutral field in the South somewhere, like they do the Super Bowl. That'll never happen.