food, crochet, merriment
Awwww…little Tarmac is off to school!
Don’t you just love his sweet back pack?!!
My favorite parts of this squirrely “get-up” are the teensy books hanging from his arms. Heehee.
Perhaps I have too much time on my hands. Perhaps my priorities are a bit mixed up. Perhaps it’s just freaking fun to imagine how people smile when they see this little guy each month. Pretty sure that’s why I do it.
All I know is I sure giggled a lot with this one.
That’s always time well spent.
Perhaps I take pictures of this same lovely stuff year after year, but, oh, my goodness–I can’t help myself.
I wander around out back thinking that I’ll just snap a couple of pictures, and be done with it and then something magical happens.
Nothing is as it was last year. The greens seems way brighter…
the red, so much more brilliant…
and when did the juniper bush grow those pretty little pods?
New browns and greens and yellows and reds that Autumn has never, ever come up with before!
All crisp, all unique and all beautiful…
just like every, single year.
Autumn is my absolute favorite time of year, but sadly, it seems to go by in a flash.
I barely have time to see all the changes that are taking place right under my nose, never mind absorb them all.
Just as soon as I’m enjoying one lovely transformation of color…
another appears…
and another…
Oh, my goodness! How do people live without all of this gorgeous-ness?
What I wish, is that the actual season of Fall would last a full three months–with all those colors on the trees…
instead of appearing one day and floating to the ground the very next.
Or so it seems.
I suppose the only thing to do is to go outside and crunch around in it more. Perhaps a little each day–instead of sitting and watching it all from the window.
Yeah. I can do that.
Though I haven’t actually moved into “my” cute little house yet, I do go there often just to walk around the yard.
It’s like I’m trying to convince myself that the trees and bushes…
and limbs and branches and sticks…
and leaves on the ground…
and leaves changing color for the fall…
and the leaves that want to stay the same…
and the lovely, mulchy, foresty looking ground cover…
and the mysterious berries are alllll…
really, truly
mine.
It’s like some kind of dream.
And the hornets that seem to be getting braver and braver…
they’re mine too.
It’s beautiful…
and I’m so, so grateful.
100 Happy Days #54
Ahhh…here we are again, at that lovely time of year. My absolute favorite, to be exact. Leaves changing and falling everywhere. The holidays approaching. That nippy cool snap in the air. But with all this loveliness also comes the musty furnace coming on at night and the cool air coming on in the day. It’s a balance from hour to hour to not roast or freeze. At our house, sometimes all these changes brings an occasional bout of scratchy throats for the big and little folks.
Must be time to whip up a batch of Honey Spice Throat Drops! Yummo.
Now, I need to tell you–if you venture out and make your own throat drops using this recipe, please, PLEASE go HERE first and find out what Hard Crack Stage actually is for your area at this time of year. It’s not hard to figure out, but it is different everywhere and changes with the weather and moisture in the air. It’s pretty aggravating to follow the directions and have the same temperature I use actually not set up, or worse, burn in your area. Do the test and your drops will work.
Mine were a tad more sticky this time because it was raining outside while I was making them. I should have cooked them a minute or two longer. But they still tasted great and did the job.
Yee haw. I love these things!
