Fall is Fabulous

It's been a perfect week, with the temperature, sunshine, no humidity.

It's a beautiful morning!

I stopped at a roadside stand wednesday and picked up some pumpkins.

Between the changing trees and the shadows, I had to take this picture.

This is the field behind us.  I enjoyed these shadows this morning.

One of our new mums showing off.

It's like halloween around here.  Spiders everywhere! 

A blue pincushion flower from the new landscaping.

This is where I bought the pumpkins from. 

Elation!

They did it-The Tigers Beat the Yankees!
Score 3-2-it was a tense game the whole nine innings, but they led the whole way.
It's sweet-beating the Yankees in their own house. 

I copied  this picture from the MSN site.
The guy in the middle is Valverde-the last pitcher who kept the lead.
He is known as Papa Grande, he has very high emotions and is great to watch. 
The Tigers got on the plane and headed to Texas. 
The next is a 7 game series, first game....Saturday night.

The front page of the Detroit Free Press e-edition.

One More Game, Darn it!

I have no pictures.  The Tigers did not play like Champions last night.  They lost by a score of 10-1.
They have to go back to New York on Thursday and thats it. 

31 Years

31 years today.  Lots of good memories.  I am always amazed at how fast time has gone.

I am glad I spent it with you Tom Hawkins.

xoxoxoxo

Playoffs-Game 3

It's A WIN against those Yankees!

Final Score 5-4

It was a nail biter to the end.

These post season games wear us out-we have to be with them to the end.

Game 4-tonight....8:37 pm

Tigers Playoff update

The Tigers and the Yankees have won a game apiece.

Cabrera hit a homer with Magglio Ordonez on base along with other runs.

Ending score-5-3(Note-this is only a picture of the Tigers, not a picture from todays game. This is from a couple of years ago, they were playing the Orioles and #15 on base is Kevin Millar now the host of Intentional Talk on the MLB network. If you haven't seen that show and are a baseball fan, It Is Great.  You're sides will hurt from laughing.)

They go back to Gods Country tomorrow-Comerica Park.

Justin Verlander vs C.C. -It should be good. 

8:37 p m.

Happy Birthday

This is my husband Tom.

If you see him today, wish him Happy Birthday.

He is kind, caring, funny and handsome too.

Like fine wine, he keeps getting better with age.

xoxoxox

Cabin #3

This was one of the cabins offered at Burntside Lodge in Ely, MN.  We stayed in Cabin #4 which was very charming.  I plan to put this painting along with, hopefully others in a student art exhibit at the Goldfish Gallery at The University of Saint Francis in December.  The dimensions for each entry are supposed to be postcard size 4 1/2 X 6 and many will be for sale. 

Classes Update

This is Saint Rose Church in Monroeville.  We had to try exposure times, that is why there are stripes. 

Here is is close to the right exposure time.

I have made contact sheets.

And developed pictures. 

Sorry everything is so crooked.

Obviously I put it in the scanner that way.

Speech is going well, actually kind of fun.  I have been up in front and have lived.

I am just plugging away at the online sociology class.

So Ornery

If I am at the computer, he has to be right there too.

Scratch my Chin please.

Rubbing and Rubbing on the bag.

Stonewall is so territorial about the bed.

Sebastian is sleeping on the bed.

Stonewall jumps up there and attacks Sebastian.

It looks like a cartoon with the cats fighting.

He is so ornery!

2011 AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL CHAMPIONS

Hear The Roar!

So Exciting.

We See You TIGERS.

Beauty planted

This week we finally got our landscaping.

I have a three tier fountain that will go in the bare spot in the middle.

There is a lot of space for growing.

I really love this ornamental grass.  It should do well by the dryer vents.

These two bushes are burning bushes and there are very feathery coreopsis.

The little garden off the deck with Saint Francis in the middle.

This is behind the garage.  It is such a long space that I had them leave a bare spot so that I may plant tall plants like sunflowers, lupins, hollyhock and big zinnias.

This is the side of the garage that faces the street.  That is a magnolia tree in the middle and it works around the dish, the well head and the gas meter. 

Birch tree with knock-out roses, daylilies etc. 

I feel it will be wonderful when they start to grow.

School Days are back

It has been a busy two weeks at work and since school has started so has the homework.  The three classes I am taking this semester are Photography (actual manual, film developing photography, Online Sociology and Speech (one of my biggest phobias) this class will be so good for me.  This is why I haven't been able to post much.  We did work in the dark room this last Wednesday and made a photogram, which essentially is taking photo paper and laying items on it that can be seen through.  The photopaper is put on the enlarger and a light is shined for a few seconds.  Then it gets developed with the chemicals and above is my photogram. It has my pill bottle with ibuprofen and acetaminophen that can be seen through it.  A decorative key with a leather strap from my purse.  A paperclip with a flower design.  My necklace and a pen that has a see through middle.  I think photo paper is really magical.  You put it in chemicals and wha-la it has something developed on it.  The photo paper is in a box in a black bag and it cannot be opened in the light or it will turn black and be no good.  It will be fun sharing my experiences with the dark room.

One Stamp

I used this one stamp and made three different cards.  The stamp is from The Artful Stamper and it is stamped on white paper and also on vellum.  I cut out the windows of the stamp and colored both the white paper and the vellum.  I love patterened paper and enjoy the chance to use it as often as possible. 

Here is a pink vellum envelope.  Even the mail person can enjoy a pretty card.

Pretty muffin cups

I found all these pretty muffin cups at Michaels Crafts.  I threw them in this bowl to store them in the pantry and thought they were so appealing they deserved their own picture. 

Poster Picture

I found this poster and immediately loved it.  I found a nice frame for it and Tom put it up last week.  The photographer discovered hearts in all different places.

African Violet

I purchased a couple of African Violets yesterday and the store also had these nifty African violet pots.

I know it is better to water these plants from the bottom.  Conveniently the plants could be taken out of the plastic pot they were bought in and be dropped into the first half of the ceramic pot.  You then put water in the second pot and fit the plant pot into it.  That way the water soaks through to water the bottom of the plant. 

Here the blue pot is in the sunroom.

The new clock for the sunroom also.

Here is a green pot in the refurbished bird cage. 

Random Acts of Kindness Story

Taken from the Book "Random Acts of Kindness-An Illustrated Celebration
I was living in Chicago and going through what was a particularly cold winter-both in temperature and in my personal life.  One evening I was walking home from a bar where I had been drinking alone, feeling sorry for myself, when I saw a homeless man standing over an exhaust grate in front of a department store.  He was wearing a filthy sportcoat and approaching everyone who passed by for money.

I was too immersed in my own troubles to deal with him so I crossed the street.  As I went by, I looked over and saw a businessman come out of the store and pull a ski parka out of a bag and hand it to the homeless man.  For a moment both the man and I were frozen in time as the businessman turned and walked away.  Then  the man looked across the street at me.  He shook his head slowly and I knew he was crying.  It was the last time I have ever been able to disappear into my own sorrow. 

Come on readers, post a random act of kindness story that happened to you in my comments section.

Bales

I pass this field twice a week and am amazed at the hay bales that are put randomly out there.  It seems as if they multiply each time I go by.  Maybe they don't but I think it is amazing how they look.  The field is very wide and deep.  A lot of work and time went into it. 

Corners

I have this corner cabinet in my studio and use it to keep my ink pads.  The way I was doing it before I could not see what I had to work with.  They were just jumbled together.  I found these corner shelves and am really happy that the pads can be on layers now, it makes it so much easier.