Thank You

This beautiful card came from a dear friend...

I wish to thank her...

and wish all my Blogging Friends...

a wonderful and joyous day!

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For The Beauty Of The Earth Hymn

For the beauty of the earth,

For the beauty of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the beauty of each hour

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale, and tree and flower,

Sun and moon and stars of light,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our grateful hymn of praise.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth, and friends above,

Pleasures pure and undefiled,

Lord of all, to thee we raise

This our grateful hymn of praise.

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Today...November 24th

would have been my Mother's 84th birthday!

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Everything in Nature Bespeaks the Mother

Everything in nature bespeaks the MOTHER.

The sun is the mother of the earth and

gives it its nourishment of heat;

it never leaves the universe at night

until it has put the earth to sleep

to the song of the sea

and the hymn of the birds and brooks.

And this earth

is the mother of trees and flowers.

It produces them,

nurses them, and weans them.

The trees and flowers

become kind mothers

of their great fruits and seeds.

And the mother,

the prototype of all existence,

is the eternal spirit,

full of beauty and love.
.....Kahlil Gibran

Happy Thanksgiving To All!!!

Love, Wanda

Colors and Camouflage

Tuesday morning...I was up before sunrise...
having coffee on the porch...

but soon I found myself in the yard
taking photos of the sky...in the dark...

alone in the black dark!

I even went into the field alone...

my bravery surprised me!

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The clouds looked as if...

they were exploding toward me...

from their base...






of pink and blue...






and the colors quickly spread across the sky.






By the time I got back to the porch...
a wind had had blown in much cooler air...
and I was getting cold.

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Just as well,
.
because I had grocery shopping to do...
.
our refrigerator was empty
.
"reeeally" empty!!!






Empty because it "quit" working...
It was 13 years old and I loved it!
It's black!





it sat across the end of this extra hallway
...but it had to go...




and replacing it wasn't easy...
but we did.


This is what sits here now...
and it's "reeeally" black
it looks like a big black beast...
to help tame it we put
a drawing done by Dylan on the door...





and my mother-in-law's pig and
a few chickens on top...






and camouflaged it from the back!

and filled it with food...

so I guess it will do.

The falling leaves have kept us busy too,

this enormous pile is from the front yard

most of it will be composted.

There are still leaves hanging on the

Oak trees in the front yard though...

and the leaves in the back yard

haven't been touched,

but Herhusband keeps clean water

flowing back there for the birds...

and I still have some parsley hanging on
out back...

just like the leaves

on the Oak trees out front

...and

guess what I saw through these

same leaves.

Look closely...

It's The Good Year Blimp flying over!

~enlarges~

Then walking over after school one day...

were grandsons Andrew and Dylan.

Dylan walked the length of the drive

with his face covered...

or you could say...camouflaged!

But I got him here!

followed by Andrew!

Another day Alivia came over to spend some time!

Alivia loves to read...sitting or lying down!

She likes pink a lot too!

I haven't been on walks deep in the woods...

because it's hunting season...but from the back

yard you can see fairly far through the trees...

that's where I spotted this Buck and Doe...

on the far hill...they're camouflaged...

so enlarge the photo to better see!

They had been down in this valley and

surprised me.

Note the hollow tree....

This is the same hollow tree back in May...
where Alivia found her buried treasure

It's pretty in the brown...It's pretty in the green!
This winter I will get it in Snow!

Autumn Unveiling

Remember this sign from my last post?

This is the truck that came with it.

Earlier that morning, without notice, we saw

the orange sign...standing in the sun's rays.

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Tree trimmers were here...to do their job...

on this very windy Autumn day!

Leaves were falling peacefully,

but at a very rapid pace.

~enlarges~

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From inside...I safely filmed...

as they made waste...of the near leafless limbs.

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Trimming everything back...
from the electric lines...
they had two trucks...with two buckets...
but even so...it took a very long time.

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Lunch was squash/pumpkin soup with grains
and a salad...




...it ended with chocolate cake and coffee too!




Later, after the tree trimmers' job ended...
I went out for a view...and of course
took my camera too!




They made a change...but so was Autumn.
I took a walk to the back woods edge...
where most of the trees...were changing fast.

The golden leaves you see hanging on...
belong to small Beech trees...
they most always...fall off last.




Those numerous little silver gray Beech trees...
came from bigger ones across the way.
See the large Beech with the broken limb.
we visited there once...on another day.

~enlarges~


Here's the same tree with it's summer green...

and with it's missing limb on the ground.

Remember Andrew and I were here...

and this is where...his claws were found...

and there too...this was found by me...

what it was...I have no clue...but, look close

...two white teeth...you'll see!

~enlarges~

A brown bug I found in the woods this day...

on the storage shed...where he can just stay!

"Leaf-footed Stink Bug"

Here's a fungus covered tree stump

with it's blend of moss and brown leaves...

Here's lots of those leaves blowing in the breeze!





The wind that day took a lot of leaves down...

you can view the water tower from the field

now!

I can view the clouds through the trees...

from my front porch with ease!

Sunrises and Sunsets will no longer be veiled...

Full Moons out back I will be able to see well...

~last week's "Hunters Moon"~