Sunny Sunday........

The view of the sun shinning through the leaves helps to show the form of the trunk of the tree.


It is a nice yellow but the birch this year is mixed with dead leaves. The color is not a clear light yellow. This is the opposite side of the tree with the sun shinning on the tree.

I hope everyone has a restful day and that your weather is good. We are having a great fall temperature wise but it will not last. I need to mow grass and leaves soon as they will start to build up out there. Thanks for stopping in...............

Stella o'Dora thinks it is spring.........

I watched the past few weeks in amazement to see this lily budding again.  I know that they bloom periodically but I didn't think it would strike out again this late in the year.

An old robin's nest fell out from under my garden shed roof. It had been only used once but the nest stayed there for a couple of years.  They are an amazing structure.

The time has come to thin and prune back the forsythia bush.  It doesn't bloom well anyway but it is the wrong time of the year.  It looks a lot like my nest photo with the textures of intertwined branches.

I hope your Sunday is a good one with lots of rest and some fun too.  Thanks for stopping in..........

Two gates..........

Fall is setting in at the backyard gate as the flowers are all one but some of the foliage is still surviving. I still enjoy seeing the blue on that gate and I finally fixed the latch so it works oh so smoothly.

At the side gate the gourds are growing rapidly but the cooler air is turning some of it's leaves yellow. This is typical of our fall sky with the bright blue and fluffy clouds.

We will have a cool Saturday with the high at 60 degrees so that ever growing  grass will have to wait for a warmer day for mowing.

Thanks for stopping in...........

Fall sets in........

You can tell it is fall when the days turn rainy and cold for a few days at a time and the sun is very noticeably shining further south .  Our tomorrows forecast does call for a totally clear day and warmth again.


I bought some new mums this year and I am hoping they do bloom soon. The established mums in the neighborhood are already in bloom so these guys are late.



While thinking of bringing in the plants this fall, I will bring these geraniums in the window planter in for another winter.

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I am experiencing trouble with blogging again. As Google has me on a setting that now demands I upload all the photos that I want to use on my blog into a file on Picasa. They want me to retrieve them from that file. I had not known that every photo that I placed in the blogs that I write all end up into Picasa and I can retrieve photos that I have blogged before easily enough but I want to add new photos.

Right now I am going into settings and changing it back to the older format and when I get the photos downloaded I go back and change the settings to the newer format. It is driving me crazy. I know we have been here before with blogspot but I don't know it it will correct itself like it did in the past.

I have a few Picasa web albums already in which I used to download past wedding photos but I don't even know how to get there except through that bookmark. I will have to educate myself to change my ways if this continues. I remembering complaining the last time that this is two more steps to get to the adding of photos process in blogging.

My wife is also on blogspot and this problem doesn't exist for her.  I guess time will tell.  Have a good weekend even if it is inside.
Thanks for stopping by.............

Fall weather.......

The wind and the rain snapped this rose off and it withered in one day.  It was the only bloom that the rosebush had put out this year but there will be more next year.

Fluffy was the name one of our friends gave him as he does look like he needs a haircut.  He did have one after that to get the hair out of his eyes and to shorten his do just a little.

A busy Friday today but thought I would at least check in with a few things.  Rained most of the day yesterday but today looks more promising.  Thanks for stopping by...........Fall is here.