tumbleweedsandthyme

What do you see when you look at the day?

 My morning began by seeing this butterfly laying/resting on these blue pansies. I was amased at how its marking are identical on each wing. I went about working and when I walked by again it was still there..I feared it dead, but I touched aplant nearby and it fluttered so slightly a wing. I wondered what it was contemplating in such a peaceful state, if anything. I asked it if I could lay my worries beside it as not to carry them with me through the day.

Much of the day my hands were in dirt..a place they like to be. I potted several pots  

 

     In a few days this wonderful deep clay bowl with be entirely full with leaf lettuce having grown to cover the top. Red leaf, salad bowl green (a very tender leaf), red oakleaf, Buttercrunch and little gem romaine make up this, "The Salad Bowl" Imagine at the end of the day picking fresh crisp leaves for a dinner salad right from your very own salad bowl. 

And as always I like to think outside the (garden) pot and so I potted this vintage agate pan with front handle full of pretty pansy, and dressed up for the season with a couple of gourds and a little pumpkin.   Bushel baskets also plant up well and can be sat anywhere this time of year, nut given a chouce I think they would wish to sit on the porch as a welcome basket...tie a piece of mini corn on the handle with a pretty plaid fall ribbon to hold it in place....(I planted one, a bushel baslet today, but forgot to take a picture of it,  oops!)

At the end of the day I looked to see if Sid the spider was still hanging safely and no one had decided to knock down his web...he was fine....

 

the butterfly was gone, hours ago of course but I stopped by the pansies ..picked up my worries, thanked the pansies for keeping them kindly for me through the day...and headed home. Look at the sky before me..rolling clouds of pink and blue like cotton candy swirling in a plastic bubble at a state fair..Glimmers of the sun that has sunk below a level I could view it setting tonight.

 When your day begins like this       

AND ends like this                        

           it deserves a little praise, "Thank you Universe for the day you have given me."

Ps I miss you my baby bird, thank you for teaching me to look up at the sky when the day draws to an end. I love you K.

Autumn Inspiration

I spend my days lugging and toting,,, pumpkins, gourds, dried corn, hay bales, corn stalks and more.  What fun to make displays and see people tear them apart for their pleasure of taking home the perfect pumpkin to decorate for the season, and then I do it all over again. Just some pictures this morning so you can have a peak and perhaps get inspired to Welcome Autumn. This is the season of blessings, a time of good and plenty, and a time to be grateful for the harvest.

Not much time to write here these days, but thought I'd take you on a walk with me through  where I work and play each day at bringing Autumn to life. Remember to click on the pictures below to see them full size if you'd like a closer look.

  Nellie is happy at Stoney's and here she sits after carrying a load of pansies. Children love to have their picture taken sitting on her seat.

One of two tin roof wagons (this one. the smaller, overflows with gourds and Indian corn of all sizes. A barrel planted with winter pansy. 

  A table of pumpkins of every kind, shape and texture, content to be clustered together.

 A wagon painted blue takes up residence in front of Carolyn's Coop. Children have their picture taken here sitting on that very BIG pumpkin in the center. The front of the coop not finished yet (maybe today! or not haha so busy!) but if I waited until I was satisfied with what it looked like I would never get any pictures here for you to see. 

   Harvest Wreaths hang on old wooden shutters. Bundles of wheat are tied with ribbons.

And now just some pictures for your pleasure. I have to get ready to get there so I am running out of time now.  

 

 

 

 

 

Pumpkins pumpkins everywhere and loads of good veggies and more treasures inside the red barn.

The entire side lot is orange pumpkins

 

Sunflowers field still in bloom and bunches picked each morning.

 

Look a the texture and colors of this glorious pumpkin.

And this one below is a Cinderella Pumpkin.

  Somedays I feel like Cinderella...Living in a fairytale... while creating with so much beauty of the season...but when the day ends my coach turns back into a pumpkin But the fairytale changes...I go home to my prince.

Next time just some close ups of some different varieties of pumpkins that perhaps you have never seen.

Have a happy autumn. Gather friends for a night of crusty bread and hot soup, call it a bring your own blanket party and eat in the garden, wrapped up in warmth of blanket and friendship. Celebrate the abundance that life gives, if you simply look for "it"... its there to be found.

Until I see you here again...........Blessings to you.