Sky Watch w/a Side of Change...

Seasonal beauty abounds!
Look at the difference 6 weeks makes here!

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expect anything!

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Sky Watch Friday

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Stormy Sky

Wish I could paint what
My mind tells my fingers to...
There's just no ~connect~.

(sigh)

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xoabb
expect wishful thinking at times

Photo: Stormy Sunset on Lake Champlain, May 2008

Beehive

This tree, that happens to be in front of the school I work in has just been incredibly spectacular this year. This is the third year I've worked here and Maple Tree has never ever been more beautiful! (No it's not the first pic you've seen of Maple Tree.)
Must tell you, though I've proclaimed loud and long that this Autumn isn't near as lovely as last Autumn...the last day or two has been absolutely magnificent! If only there was sunlight to back up all this crimson beauty!

Community Garden Clean-Up's Begun!

Well, I began the cleanup.
But I just couldn't bear to pull up the nasturtiums.
They're still so beautiful!

Or the habanero (I think) peppers.
They might not ever turn yellow or orange,
but I'm keeping them on the vine until the very
last day we can have plants in our plots.
And that's this coming Sunday, Nov. 1st.

Above taken as I was walking to our plot this past Sunday.
Embiggen the photo and you can see how
huge the nasturtiums have gotten!
(Our plot is the one behind the wooden frame.)
The eggplant and pepper plants still look beautiful,
but they're not producing like they did.

After the removal of the tomato plants and cages,
and the now non-producing bean plants.
I tried to save as much of the nasturtiums as
I could, and couldn't bear to take the other
healthy plants out.
Alas, next Sunday all will be gone.

It's been fun!

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xoabb
expect anything!

Sunday Serenity

Beauty is not a luxury;
it is a means of lifting the human spirit
and of giving richness to everyday life.
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~Alice Waters

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xoabb
expect anything!

SWF: Autumn

I still say last Autumn was more beautiful than this Autumn.
However, there are individual trees - above one of them -
that are simply gorgeous and much more beautiful than last year.

Hmmm...that's what it is...
Last Autumn, the entire season was spectacular
This Autumn, single trees are spectacular...

I'll take either!
Gladly!

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xoabb
expect anything!

Sky Watch Friday
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Morning Glory. Going Going Gone...

Well, at least until next summer...

The Community

Garden Morning Glories

Just gorgeous, aren't they?

Remy, Kat & I

Explored the upper garden

And found these strange plants

Just know I've seen them

But have no clue what they are!

The pod! It's a clue!

(click on photos to make larger.)

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xoabb

expect questions at times!

It Was Sunday (Serenity) on our MO Pond

No, today obviously isn't Sunday, but that's when this photo was taken by my mom.
Click here to see above photo in all its glory!

That's Rem, Tim and Cody-dog floating and fishing (well, at least Remy was fishing) on the magnificent pond just outside the living room windows of my parents MO home this past Sunday. Heaven? You could say that, but would still be missing out on how very wonderful this paradise really is.
My girl and her beau have been visiting my parents (her grandparents...duh!) this past week, and I can, without any doubt, tell you it's been a most excellent adventure for all participants! The four of them - along with a good amount of extended family - have cooked, gamed, hiked, eaten, explored, talked, played, and made many many unforgettable memories together!

Isn't that what family is all about?

Just wish I'd been there as well.

(sigh)

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xoabb
expect anything!

Photo courtesy of Mum Bum - wonderful pic, as always, mom!

Last Harvest

Behold the glory of the very last of our Community Garden harvest for the year. Those peppers are all ours - grown in our community garden plot - and now becoming part of a wonderful stir-fry! (There are onions & garlic in there as well, but, alas, they are from the grocery store.)
We were supposed to have a CG clean-up day/pot luck lunch Saturday, but the weather forecast was so very very rotten, the whole thing was canceled. Guess what? Didn't rain much at all! Cold? Yes! But we could have gathered together. Weathermen called for a 90% chance of rain. on Saturday. HA! Wrong again! Today? We were supposed to have spotty showers...and it's rained all day. POOH!

I know there are peppers still clinging on, but they're not what they once were, what with all the cold weather we've had, and I'm not really sure they'll be harvestable by the time I can get to the CG plot. The weather's supposed (relative word there) to become warmer and dryer by Wednesday so I hope to be able to pull any last peppers, clear everything out and put my garden baby to bed.

It's been a very good first year, if I don't say so myself!

OOOOOPS! Though I used the proper ~we~ in the first part of the post, I didn't in that last paragraph. I certainly didn't mean to exclude my daughter Remy and her beau Timmy! They did as much work as I did getting this CG plot up and running! (Hey, I'm old, I forget, whadya want from me?!?!) A community effort in our community garden!

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xoabb

expect anything!

Sunday Serenity

Fathers be good to your daughters,
Daughters will love like you do...

(Thank you, John Mayer for the words,
and Heather for the picture!)

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xoabb
expect anything!