I saw this in the paper today:

What with hundred-billion-dollar bailouts and trillion-dollar deficits, one tends to forget that tens of billions is still quite a bit of money. Here are two interesting ways of looking at these astronomical numbers.

A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. Or, to save a million dollars, just squirrel away $500 every week for 40 years. To save a billion dollars, stash $50,000 every week for 40 years. To save a trillion dollars, put by $500,000 every week for 40 years.

This is at the Bellagio, their fall display involving huge pumpkins (corner of one in the foreground) and lots of chrysanthemums:



This is a Grandma Moses print on fabric that my mother made into drapes for the basement in the house I grew up in. I found this framed piece in an antique store in Oklahoma.