Thanks Celeste. It's not been one of our best leaf seasons.
Yes, I skied once, Deb. Only time I ever broke a bone. My foot. They had to cut my foot out of the ski. Then they really hurt my feelings by gawking and saying it's impossible to break your foot in a ski! Well, it was black and huge. I have steel pins there now. It's been downhill ever since. :>)
Laurel
Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos - Part 44
My son snowboards so he's anxious for it to accumulate, im not. I skate and I use to snowmobile.
Good one Laurel!
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DH messed up his foot in a ski boot - not broken just mangled.
Awe, sorry! Hope he heals soon so you can both get some sking in. My Aunt skied up until she had a mild stroke, I think she was 71, she's 83 now.
Too funky weird. Its colder in FL right now than here. Obviously there's been a shift in the matrix.
Really. If I was younger I'm sure there would be a new baby by next August. I am under the comforter, a Mexican blanket, and another twin comforter. Then there is DS's old flannel pants and leftover airplane socks. Maybe there wouldn't be a new baby after all. lol DH can make it on just the regular comforter. I do think you are used to cold weather if you grow up with it. Me...well I'm downright pathetic. Every morning, for more than thirty years, I wake up at this time of year and ask, "Is it Spring yet?"
Christmas beans two days ago. It's neat to see the light through the beans. We'll cook what's left as fresh beans. The rest are dried and stored.
L
OMG dahlianut.....You made DH & I crack up on that one, he just watched the Matrix sunday!
It's real pixie. I'm convinced. What about the deja vu thing, huh? Could there be a better explanation?
MaypopLaurel, love that reflection shot.
I went and wandered about snapping some shots of the stragglers in the garden. No frost yet, but lots of wind and rain. Love the snakeroot, Actaea simplex, every year. I divided a bunch of it this spring and the new plants have ton's of buds that have still not opened yet. Patti
Laurel, you cracked me up! But being cold is no fun! Patti, roses for Thanksgiving! My roses are bare! I need to plant for color at this time of year--even something with exfoliating bark would be of interest--everything is just gray & brown! Oh, I do have conifers, but can't see them from the kitchen window--I guess that's where I need some color!
Today was way too cold here for me, guys!
Thanks for the compliments, Victor and Shelly. Shelly, I do like history and such. Neat stuff.
Pixie and Dahlia, I just loved The Matrix movies. Great stuff. But I sure hope we're not really living in the Matrix. I think if we are I don't want to find out. I'll just go on my merry way thinking it's all real. Hmmmm...... Is there anything wrong with living in the matrix if you're happy? The reality in that movie was pretty depressing. Don't think there's any gardening being done, either.
Nice pics, Laurel. Too bad about your foot. I broke my ankle once falling off a horse. It was actually either the fibia or tibia I broke (the large bones in my lower leg), and I knocked the ankle joint all out of whack. I have a pin in my bone now and a bad case of osteoarthritis. It'll never be the same again. I just live with it the best I can.
You are right, Laurel, about the cold weather creating more laundry. I grew up here in MA, but I still hate the cold. I lived for 4 years in Phoenix, AZ, and I loved the winters there. Like paradise, though the summers were hot as Hades (can we say that here?). Anyhow, I really liked it there and would like to live there again, or in Nevada. I live in and near Reno for 17 years. It's high dessert there, and they do get snow in the winter, but spring comes a little earlier, and when it snows there it usually doesn't last that long. I think they are zone 7. Better yet I would like to live near Vegas. I don't think I could handle it there in Georgia. I hate the humidity as much as I hate the cold, though I think if I had to choose, it would be hot, humid weather over icy cold. I'm not into winter sports.
Karen
Karen, Georgia has three major climates. We have a Southern shoreline (Savannah, Tybee, Brunswick and so on), a Piedmont (Atlanta south and north) and the Appalachian foothills on into the mountains. There is a wide variety of climate options. Today in the N. GA mtns., only 85 miles from home in Atlanta, we had temps in the teens. Chances for snow are much better here. We've been snowed in for days, even with 4 wheel drive. I do love the lush mountains from here into the Carolinas and Virginia.
The foot was many years ago but is a constant reminder of sports failure. I love sports so much that it was probably a good thing skiing was not a part of my future. I just gave up my horses a few years ago. I'm a broken woman after years of endurance riding and hoppin' logs in the woods.lol
A sage for the Thanksgiving feast.
Laurel, that is the same for Nevada and Arizona. Lots of different climates. The only thing they really don't have is the humidity we have here in the east (and most other parts of the country, too).
I loved the dry heat, even though I had to use a lot more hand lotion. In northern NV, in Reno and Fallon (60 miles east of Reno), the summers would get in the 80's and 90's, occasionally over 100, but not very often. In Phoenix it was over 100 all summer with no relief. Here we spend all winter in our warm homes, there we spent all summer in our cool homes. I felt sorry for anyone who didn't have A/C in that climate.
Both NV and AZ had mountainous area where they got lots of snow. Living in Reno was nice, as it was so close to Lake Tahoe, which is at an elevation of 6200'. Reno is about 4500'. Fallon is about 3900'. Then I think Phoenix, AZ was close to sea level.
You know, at one time I wanted to do endurance riding. I had a horse that was half Morgan and half Quarter Horse. Her name was Babe. I used to ride for hours out on the trails in Reno, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Gorgeous country.
I have been away from riding for a long time, though recently I have made friends with a woman who just started working for our company this past summer. She has 3 horses, and she invited me to go riding with her. The horse she let me ride was great, and we had a lot of fun. The first ride was only for about 1/2 an hour, but the second ride was for about 2 hours, and a friend of mine and her daughter trailored their horses out to meet us and came along. It was great.
That was back in September, and we have not had a chance to ride again since then. We both have different schedules, though we have talked about both playing hooky one of these days just so we can go riding. Don't know if we'll have any good days to do that, now that cold weather is here. Might have to wait for spring now.
Now skiing is one thing I don't want to get into.
Karen
Saw this in my garden I'll call it
"warming dove" lol
Great one, Jo Ann!
Nice, Jo Anne. When I was going to out to the school bus before, I caught this guy atop my beech. Ran back in to get the camera.
NIce shot Victor...what a handsome devil!!
Thanks. I think it's a red-tail, as that is the most common around here, but I'm not positive.
Like your dove, JoAnn, and your hawk, Victor. Very nice!
Karen
Hawks and Doves
Are we in the Pentegone?
I don't know, but I really like them both! I love the name that you gave yours JoAnn, the warming dove.
Laurel, I love the fall color pictures. I had no idea that Georgia had a zone 7. But, when i think about it, it does make sense given the mountains and elevation.
Brook, your collage is great.
TeeHee I was hopeing someone would Get-it.
Good Morning RC
A couple from this past weekend still.
Good morning to you as well. Yep, got it right off the bat. Which isn't often for me :-p
Nice to see color, its all gone here.
I couldnt figure out what that was until I enlarged the thumnail.
WOW what a shot. Really beautiful, Love the soft gradation of mauves and lavendars.
That maple branch was well protected. A larger maple, and a larger fir over it. The top branches had already lost their leaves. i'm happy for anything now! I'm guessing that i'm 1 to 2 weeks behind you. However, somehow Victor is later than I am. Go figure :-p
The last leaves left on the tree.
Thanks! but, that had very little to do with me, and everything to do with the Cotinus. They make it very easy to take a picture. Really.
another one sort of like that.
He is further south and near a River . I believe the river also keeps things tempret.
My sister used to live in Piermont and always had lettuse harvested about the time I was just planting, at least two weeks ahead of me.
I'll try to paint that one.
Doesn't that just drive you nuts sometimes. So close, but still so many micro climates apart!
Go for it. I love your work. Are we talking about the cotinus or the last picture?
I can't stand blackberry bushes, but I have to admit that the leaf here was interesting.
I'll paint the waterdrops on the lavander leaf.
and the last one for now, another pic of schizostylus
Ohhh. I can't wait to see what you do with it!
Must get some zzzz.... see you all in a little while!
Morning, everyone!
JoAnne, I know what you mean. Shelly's leaf with dew picture (the first one) looks like a big rock in the thumbnail. Very nice, Shelly, and I love the color on the JM leaves. That schizostylus sure is a bright red.
Well, all the color is pretty much gone here, too, though actually my early bridal veil spireas still have leaves on them. Didn't know they would hang on so long.
Karen
Great leaf shots, Shelly!