Hi! A grey Sunday afternoon while writing this hodge podge post. Just catching up and what a random post it is. Where to even start? Shopping, gardening, nature notes, we have it all. Let's head over the bridge.
I got my friend L on the road on Friday, off we went, of course to Home Goods. We found a bit of Halloween, NO Thanksgiving, and lots and lots of Christmas.
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We liked this giant bottles for gathering seaglass, but I forgot to go back and put one in my cart. Center shelf, w traditional demijohns was best.
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I bought this glass pumpkin, actually for a gift but on consideration I think that idea is a no, so I will keep it here.
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We both dressed up a bit, feeling festive on a gorgeous day [silly as that sounds!]. Since Covid times I haven't been wearing jewelry much, just my summer bead bracelets. For years I always wore an assortment of thin bangles, most are memory items engraved with poems or words and special to me. For our outing I wore my favorite Fall necklace, bought in happier times at the Big Sunday Flea. I love it, though I think it is just brass, perhaps once copper plated?
The acorns and oak leaves are so fun and pretty, evocative of a bright October day.
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the gathering bowl:
Nature pages:
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The scribble journal:
This is the yellow rumped warbler in case you are not sure what that is. They truly look like sparrows unless you see that flash of almost neon or school bus yellow as they flit by. [Audubon photo online]
I decided to use a brown grocery bag instaed of my stripey notepad.
I love how the pigment white worked out.
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It's a gel pen type I use to make dark fabric on quilts.
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A visit to my friends' house the other day, enjoyed seeing their lush garden.
The invasive wild grapes have such pretty berries I always think.
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ALL his tomatoes are unplanned volunteers! Huge crop.
I was thrilled to take some home.
I made Kel's decadent pasta recipe which involves fresh sweet little tomatoes and diced Brie. Yum. (best w/ Trader Joe's delicious runny ripe Brie).
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More garden notes: In my deck pots I have found the tiniest marigolds ever! Maybe 1/4" in size. So cute.
And this is mystery. I brought this last of the zinnias bud in about 6 weeks ago.
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It has never bloomed but it is flourishing, sending out may new leaves and roots.
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What to do?--- leave it in the jar? Plant it as a houseplant?
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Almost time for Mo's walk as the days grow so short now.
Because it is chilly and grey today [how odd, not beach October at all], I made pork tenderloin with a white wine sauce; a harvest rice pilaf using beef consomme instead of chicken broth, garlic, lemon, cranberries, walnut pieces. Yum!
And roasted parmesan encrusted acorn squash.
Forgot to add the apples, darn. Maybe tomorrow?
....As mentioned it is oddly cool here, some days feel like a real midwestern Fall. On my to do list, the dreaded seasonal clothes turn over, ick. But I fear shorts are finished and summer of 22 is over.
What's on your to do list? Fun or functional?
Love
lizzy
gone to the beach
october sunsets, so distinctive, and different from summer sunsets
PS How fun is this, such nostalgia. I see a Happy Meal headed my way.
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The candy-corn-colored Christmas trees at Home Goods were oddly interesting, but I love the glass pumpkin you got!
ReplyDeleteThe tiny marigold is so cute! It seems like I should know the name of it...maybe it'll come to me later.
Apparently in some areas McDonalds have adult Happy Meals. Not here, though. :( Kelly wanted one. But hey, if you order at a drive-thru they don't KNOW if you have a kid in your car (or at home) or not! Go for it! LOL, I used to get kids' meals at Dairy Queen all the time - they came with ice cream!
We've had more actual FALL weather here than I can remember since we moved here. It's kind of weird. Now they're saying we may get lots of snow (persimmon prediction!). Author Jill Shalvis posted a short video clip on fb of it snowing where she lives! So maybe we should be prepared for a) cold and flu season, b) snow, and c) possible shortages due to covid or truckers strikes or gas prices.... Ugh. I was hoping for a quiet winter!
That's the blackest tomato I think I've ever seen! Very interesting!
Your "Scribble Journal " page on brown paper turned out so well--love the white gel pen drawings!! And the glass pumpkin is so pretty!!
ReplyDeleteWindy this morning with leaves raining down...
Off to my early dental appointment this morning :000--hugs, Julierose
Your sunsets have been glorious! October is hands-down the very best month of the year. Warm and sunny here today and the oak forests on the hillsides are in their glory. I think I'd plant that zinnia and see what happens, maybe it will grow more leaves and buds and flower in January. The blacktomato looks very interesting, would be fun to save a few seeds and try planting the, if you can get your friend to part with another one.
ReplyDeleteWhat a festive post! I love your acorn necklace!! And what? No Thanksgiving? Halloween straight to Christmas- Nope! Something very wrong with that!
ReplyDeleteYour sketches on brown paper are so effective, just like your collections of pebbles and curiosities.
ReplyDeleteThat acorn necklace is a treasure - very special. There's something about acorns that has always appealed to me. I remember my cousin,as a small child, bringing an acorn back from Kensington Gardens in her coat pocket and my uncle planting it. Today, it's a wonderful huge tree.
Your sketches on brown paper are so effective, just like your collections of pebbles and curiosities.
ReplyDeleteThat acorn necklace is a treasure - very special. There's something about acorns that has always appealed to me. I remember my cousin,as a small child, bringing an acorn back from Kensington Gardens in her coat pocket and my uncle planting it. Today, it's a wonderful huge tree.
What a lovely random post, lots of interesting things in it that say so much about you. I really enjoyed it. Glad you kept that glass pumpkin, just so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI loved your art work too, and your mention of soapwort took me back to the old Mill on the Cothi, where it was growing wild, and perhaps once used for washing clothes. The little Yellow Rumped Warbler is so pretty. I was watching my friend's Hedge Sparrows flit into her on-the-window feeders today, having little beak-to-beak fights over who got to eat first. Then a young Starling arrived, hopped right into the feeder and stuffed its beak!
What a pretty autumn necklace too. The only jewellery I wear is my wedding ring, and occasionally earrings, when I remember them.
I'm glad you enjoyed this post! Always love hearing from you. The artwork, rediscovered during covid/ poor vision has been fun. Low stress.
DeleteI saw big flocks of starlings at sunset today. Bold and brash, my parents called them sky rats and interlopers, but I enjoy seeing them as they fly in unison.
I love jewelry so it is fun to rediscover old faves again.
Oh, and do plant that Zinnia and grow it indoors. I have brought in the two GreenTwister Coneflowers I was given seeds for. They got so high then I didn't want them hit by frosts (it then got warmer!) so have them on the pink bedroom windowsill which faces south, and have one big bloom, just colouring up, and a smaller one for later. They'll overwinter indoors.
ReplyDeleteCan you show us the coneflower on your blog?
DeleteMy zinnia is so happy in its jar, I fear it won t do as well if I plant it in soil...but prob will. Thx for advice.