FALLING LEAVES 2023, Episode 8. Well, it's another day late/dollar short Sunday and the final post of this year. We start with the usual pond from the deck and fire pit/barn views of our yard.

In both cases the transition to winter is complete. What leaves are left are no longer falling and will eventually either be blown down or replaced with new leaves when spring returns. The only green left is the pine trees which are evergreen.

These views are roughly north and south along our road. The only remaining splash of color is a little red along the road to the south; otherwise the taller trees are bereft of leaves and the lesser ones that have leaves yet to fall are all brown.

Finally looking east toward the adjoining ridge we see that the dogwoods are completely bare along the fence line - even the berries have dropped.

Until next year then....

BLUE CITY DEMOCRATS: You didn't really think they cared did you?

As you watch the ... indifference and, actually, animosity Democrats hold toward them, hope they connect the last few dots in their head and realize this indifference is not new; it’s policy. It is, in fact, “progressive” to make people dependent on the government and then control them through it. It was never a concern that motivated them; it was always their own grip on power. The voting loyalty amounts to nothing; a more numerous and desirous voting bloc is moving in. I mean, you didn’t really think Democrats cared, did you?

Well, they don't. All they care about is control.

ANOTHER BLUE STATE DISARMS ITSELF: Firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson officially moved its headquarters from New England to Tennessee.

CATS ARE PERFECT: An evolutionary biologist explains why.

NO. NUKE IT FROM ORBIT. Abandon the swamp.

The only hope for the republic is to downgrade the place of Washington in our public life. The business of Washington is to make government bigger — forever. That is not what the people want.

Read it all.

SIGH: Newly amended California bill could punish parents refusing to ‘affirm’ child’s gender identity.

As a friend of mine many, many years ago once said: "We are sinking deep in sin ... Wheee."

CARPE DONKTUM ON TWITTER: "Your country has been stolen from you. Your government no longer even attempts to represent your interests at home or abroad. Your elected officials despise you, and they are systematically stripping you of your liberties one by one. Your justice system no longer functions,…"

Read the whole tweet.

WELL, IT'S GOING SOMEWHERE STRANGE. Is America going queer?

WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THIS ONE: Man who thinks he's a woman is the Babylon Bee's Man of the Year.

SO I'M GOING TO HAVE TO PAY MORE because I'm not homeless?

BECAUSE HE CAN'T BITE THEM HIMSELF? Why does Joe Biden keep letting his dogs bite people?

IMPRIMIS: Inside the transgender empire.

It's not pretty.

DOES IRAN realize its own growing danger?

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

WELL, YES: Has ObamaCare failed?

HE'S RIGHT: Academia needs to go extinct.

Let's help.

AND THEY ARE: First kill Hamas.

Like it or not, there are no innocents in Gaza.

NEW YORK POST: It's time to decolonize the campus.

By any means necessary....

THE PROGRESSIVE CLOWN SHOW continues.

Enjoy the laughs.

WHY THE GOVERNMENT IS $32 TRILLION IN DEBT: We lose a little on every sale but we make up for it in volume.

ISRAELI MUSIC FESTIVAL HOSTAGE IS FOUND - in pieces.

Which is why the rabid animals that constitute Hamas must be eradicated from the face of the Earth.