It was a gorgeous day here although the temperature never got out of the low 60's. Now tonight as I type this it's 36ยบ and there is another frost predicted. Maybe even worse, a freeze. I have all my plants in the garden covered, and all the potted flowers have been brought into the garage. I also just came back from bringing in some of my bird seed off the feeders so as not to feed the raccoon, and to my surprise under the big stationary feeder was a skunk. I tried to shoo him away, but he wouldn't leave, so I tossed a stick his way and he scurried off, BUT you guessed it, he left behind his calling card. That pungent odor hangs around for ever!On a walk this morning I got lots of pictures on the creek trail. This macro shot of some kind of fly caught my eye. It's rather colorful. I must get a book so I can ID this type of insect.Thanks to Lisa at http://lisaschaos.com/ for hosting this meme. Just click on her web site to see more macro shots.
Since we were very busy with yard work, planting garden, and weeding yesterday, I didn't take very many photos. This first picture is of my pink Rhododendron that is just opening. I have a white one too, and will post pictures of it when it is in full bloom.
A blossom that hasn't opened yet.
This weeks theme for Photohunt is BOOK(S). I don't give myself much time to read. I love to read, but somehow I've always got something else to do. Recently our Aunt Sally told me about a wonderful easy quick read about Tasha Tudor. Tasha was born Aug. 28th 1915 in Boston, Mass. Ever since she was a young woman she had wanted to live back in 1830. She eventually had her son build her a farm house to her specifications in Vermont in which she lived till she passed away last June 18th. at the age of 93. She was a wonderful author and illustrator of 70 children's books. On her farm, living alone, she had chickens, goats, Fantail pigeons, many fancy birds in the house, her ever present Corgi dogs, and a one eyed cat named Minou. She cooked on a wood stove, made all her own clothes, collected beautiful clothing from fashionable ladies out of the 1800's, made dolls and marionettes, and all the while drawing and illustrating her books. She also had lovely gardens full of heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs, again tending to these herself.I'm finished with the book you see here, and have one more waiting called " Tasha Tudor's Garden" I also will be ordering more of her works. Below you see some of the illustrating she had done on her book called Corgiville Fair. She had 5 Pembroke Welsh Corgi dogs.
Illustration from the book "Corgiville Fair."
Thanks to tnchick who hosts this meme each week. Click on Photohunt on my sidebar to see more lots more BOOK shots.
This shot looking West was taken around 8:45PM last Saturday. We had some rain earlier, and the sky was clearing. I have this sky picture on the Black and White blog also.Thanks to everybody responsible for hosting this meme. Click on http://skyley.blogspot.com/ to see lots more sky photos.
For Ruby Tuesday we saw this new engine house in Allegany, New York on our way to the cemetery yesterday. They have built a new fire house and in a glass enclosure up front have a beautiful old restored Mack fire engine. Sorry about the quality of these pictures. I was taking them through glass.Thanks to Mary/the teach for hosting this clever site. Click on http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/ to see lots more RED.
This shot was taken 1 week ago at the May Day celebration at the local high school.The clouds were really different.Happy Skywatch Friday and thanks to all involved in keeping this meme going. Click on http://skyley.blogspot.com/ to see more sky shots.