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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Autumn

05 Wednesday Feb 2020

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Fall is filled with colour, but my favourite colour is red.

Winter is an etching, Spring, a watercolour,  Summer an oil painting, and autumn is a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz

Happy Wednesday!

This is my post for Cee’s Nuener’s Fun Foto Challenge: Autumn Scenes

O Geeky Tree

20 Thursday Dec 2018

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Last Christmas, I got restless. I wanted to try something new & who knows? Maybe start my own business? Yeah right!

While there’s no business in sight, I certainly enjoyed my “geeky” creativity through the year, and turned my traditional Christmas tree into a “Geek Tree”! I’ve frittered many happy hours crafting ornaments from video games (Mario, Starcraft, Portal & Overwatch), anime (RWBY)…and a few others that I can’t share because they’re Christmas gifts. Game of Thrones, Star Wars & Star Trek are in the works. Of course, I’ve ventured into animals, tea & coffee too! Everything is hand-stitched – not a drop of glue in sight!

 

And the finished project is…well a little sad. But I have another year to remedy that!

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Deck the halls with boughs of holly – Fa la la la la, la la la la
‘Tis the season to be jolly – Fa la la la la, la la la la
– Thomas Oliphant

Happy Thursday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Swan Song

17 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Friday may have been Fall’s swan song. It was sunny and warm…and since there was no power at work, I got to work from home.

Every year, I drive by a street lined with beautiful red maple trees, and every year I think, I must drive by with my camera some time. And I never do.

But since I was driving by on my way home, and feeling like a kid who just escaped sitting in a boring  classroom all day, I seized the moment (along with my dying cell phone).

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The unexpected surprise is always sweeter. – Anonymous

After I took my photo of the maple trees, much to my delight, I discovered not only a man-made lake, but one boasting a white swan. Swan on Redstone_ed_cc

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov

Happy Wednesday!

Wilderness Wednesday: Our House

15 Wednesday Nov 2017

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Our house, was our castle and our keep
Our house, in the middle of our street*

Our Street

Our house is located by the second tree, on the left. It’s hardly a castle, but it is home. All the trees on our street looked beautiful last Thursday afternoon, but our first winter storm wreaked havoc on the leaves through the night. It made raking leaves on Saturday a rather interesting job! I quit after filling 4 bags of leaves…all from what fell on the driveway…because my fingers were frozen. Even with mittens on. I wonder how many bags it will take to finish the job?

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. – Edith Sitwell

(It’s also a good time for hot chocolate!)

Happy Wednesday!

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Our House lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songwriters: Carl Smyth / Chris Foreman / Daniel Woodgate / Garaham McPherson / Lee Thompson / Mark Bedford / Michael Barson