More FARATS Action! Yay!

Those of us in the know have begun using the FARATS acronym to save time, which is, as far as I know, the point of acronyms. What it stands for is "First Annual Rantwick Autumn Tree Smackdown", a contest that began with the comments on a 2009 Autumn tree post called The King of Autumn.

Steve A of DFW Point-to-Point has submitted his entry after much promising and asking me to wait for Texas weather to catch up with normal people's. Apparently it has, because he has submitted this excellent photo featuring flags, smooth pavement, a bike and, um, a tree:

Thanks all for your entries so far. You know, I love that I can write this blog, ask people to send me pictures for pretty much no reason other than for kicks, and they (you) do! It is so much fun! Don't ever change (unless you are evil),

R A N T W I C K

Feisty Fort Worth Foliage Forwarded For Fun Friday FARATS Fix!

Here's an entry from Rat Trap Press that few will not be tempted to vote for; RTP has called it his "scrappy little Charlie Brown tree" and I must say I like it a lot.

Remember every submission has a chance to win one of the two prizes, so send in your pics!

RTP, I grabbed this most recent pic as your entry... let me know if I should have taken the first one and I'll do that.

I don't know about how things are in other parts of the world, but man, has the cycling weather ever been awesome here in London Ontario. Frost all over everything with clear skies and bright sunlight in the mornings, temps around freezing, no snow.

The scenes on the bike path along the river on my way to work are just mind-blowingly beautiful. I've tried taking pictures, and they look nice, but they fall quite short of showing how sweet the rides have been. I wish every one of you those kinds of rides this Autumn, hopefully this weekend!

Yer Pal,

R A N T W I C K