Darkness Comes Early in Autumn....

 

 

But oh what a glorious show in the evening skies as the autumn sun moves south over the ocean.

 Tonight's sunset was amazing. I had to share with you here...

 

 

 

 

 

I especially love the final deep colors, the purples and indigo blues....I think, if you woke up after a hundred year sleep like Rip Van Winkle, and looked out at this sky, you'd know--you'd just know!  ---that it's October...

 

 

 

 

Please click to enlarge and see slide show....

(the tiny lights on the horizon are huge ships, ten miles out at sea!)

 

love

 

    lizzy

 

gone to the beach.....

 

 

 

 

October Tapestry

Hello! It's cooler today...and grey.

I went to the salt marsh park, looking for evidence of bittersweet, to cut for a door wreath,
[photo via pinterest]

....to fill my crocks and bowls with color.

 I don't cut the bittersweet at the park, of course...but it gives me a hint when it will be the right day to trudge into the scary road verge [ticks! poison ivy!] on my yearly hike.

''A tangerine and russet cascade of kaleidoscopic leaves, creates a tapestry of autumn magic upon the emerald carpet of fading summer.''

Judith A. Lindberg
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below, last three pix: this is where the little wooden bridge and grassy path lead...out into the marsh, so we can see it close up, see the ospreys' nest and salt ponds which attract geese and ducks and egrets [but not today].

 

 

 

click to enlarge/ see slide show, please....

love

lizzy

gone to the beach

 

 

 

 

Baby Boo

 

Here's Baby Boo!

Not to be ever be confused with "Honey BooBoo"! Please.

Her name is Priscilla but her daddy, Jack---Jack O'Lantern, aka Jack Be Nimble, Jack o All Trades and All Hollows---her daddy called her Baby Boo.

Boo was completed too late last October to be offered for adoption, though you may recall meeting her as I created her. This year she's ready! And very excitedly waiting to travel afar, to a new home.

She is so sweet and prim with her real punkin stem, a found pinafore,

crazy quilt cushion with her name embroidered on it...

and teeny tiny shoes with antique jet buttons...  

She will be listed on my etsy site later today, Sunday Oct. 6th, along with her best friend Tabitha the Black Cat.

 
love

lzzy

gone to the beach.....