Ooh, scary: Halloween photos are only two weeks late!

I'm through making excuses for my apparent photo-posting tardiness. In Jeff Goldblum, Big Chill fashion, I'm ready for a straight out rationalization or three. And you know what Mr. Goldblum's character, Michael, said about rationalizations, right? (If not, look it up!)

Anyway, from now on, don't think of my galleries as "late," think of them as...

...a public service. I recognize that we're all pretty busy around the first of the month, and I'm just trying to avoid adding one more thing to our collectively cluttered calendar.

...courteous. After all, my brother Steve is pretty darn consistent at posting his galleries during the first few days of the month. Why overwhelm everyone with too many photos and wrestle for attention? I politely let Steve have his glory first.

...a labor of love. Crafty captions like those found in the Hamilton Zone gallery don't just grow on trees. Nope. They take time and effort. And I usually remove red-eye, too! Just more value-added services for you, dear reader.

See? No tardiness here. Just delay by design. (Yeah, that's the ticket!) So without further bull...er, ado...I present to you October's gallery--Halloween included--viewable directly here, or as always, via the main gallery page here.








Oh, and by the way, my little experiment last month--removing the links to high-resolution, zipped files--proved what I thought it would, that no one was downloading the zips. At least no one did last month. Consequently, I've removed them, because their posting more than doubled the amount of time I was spending putting up the galleries each month.

Note to grandparents and others: If you want high-resolution files for printing, let me know. I can easily enough email you the files you're interested in. And if there's sufficient demand, I'll add the zips back in.

Oh, and if by some chance I happen to post November's photos early next month, don't think of it as hypocrisy, just think of it as an editorial decision intended to head off your last-minute demands on your hectic holiday schedule. Yeah, that's it...