Lovely October

I waited for her to get off the road-then she waited for me to take her picture.

On my way home from town today, I parked my car and then crossed this little 'bridge' so I could take a look at a pond.

This pond-I'll call it water lily pond. I haven't looked at this pond for years-I had no idea there were water lilies growing here.

Looking down the road-I took this photo on my way to town. I can't help but smile looking around at all the gorgeous trees!

The zinnias are still blooming-yay!

Beaming light

This is my great yellow squash harvest of 2012.  They are tiny!  Oh, well!

Have a nice day!

There's no place like home

Loving the light

Loving the leaves and the clouds

Loving my pupper!

I like the red ones the best.

It's such a pretty time of the year.  I just love it!

Have a great rest of the week, everybody!

Happy birthday, Jess!

15 pics-plus one to grow on!

1st Christmas

On vacation this year

Last year at her birthday party (with her mommy)

This year at her birthday party

She's always so bubbly!

She's always so beautiful!

At Patrick's graduation

Where have the years gone?  Come on, somebody tell me!

This girl gets more beautiful with each passing year, if that's possible!  

As you can tell, I don't really like her!  :)

Happy birthday, dear Jessicaaaaaa!!!  Happy birthday to you!!!

PS-Aunt Holly loves you with all her heart!

Autumnal

Burning an apple candle

Picking the last of the tomatoes-love these colors together

The leaves are changing

View from my front door

Zinnia going to seed

Love this unruly looking zinnia

Amber grain-aka wheat

The last of the sunflowers

Chicory

The days are chilly, the light is gorgeous, flowers are going to seed, the leaves are changing-yep it's autumn.  I love it!

This and that

Weeds!

Wildflowers!

One last shot of these gorgeous zinnias!

It was beautiful outside Saturday.

This is Bear-Jess' (my niece's) doggie.  He's got great eyes, doesn't he?

Saturday, I went to a birthday party for a very lovely girl.

The very lovely girl is Jess-more on her tomorrow. This is Jess and one of her other doggies-Mok.

I made Jess some Russian tea cakes. 

This is Jess' gift-movies and Russian tea cakes.  The girl is a real movie buff! (The strawberry wrapping paper came from Michaels' dollar bin.)

Fiestaware

Saturday's sunrise-I love the layered look.

I was turning at a stop sign on our back roads yesterday, and out of the corner of my eye-I spotted chickens in the woods.  They free range at a house up the road, but apparently they were on a walk-about.  (Oh, yeah-of course I just had to put down my window and take a pic!)           

I call this photo-Rooster Blur.