We're Late, We're Late for a Very Important Date!

Some geese flew overhead before the storm

and 

because I had been playing with mark making with Diane

I wanted to snap them

just as marks in the sky.

I'm posting this and scheduling it before the storm just in case we loose power.

A Bird's Breakfast

The Cardinals are back at the feeder

after spending the heat of summer

in the woods

They are catching up with all the gossip

over a plate of seeds.

Scratching Life

Week number 42 I think

The cardinals are back at the bird feeder

Exploring stitch

and

an autumn day trip in the car

On Thursday Diane and I

played in our sketchbooks

and watched an eagle overhead

On Friday

the RP's and I walked

through an all embracing fog

One of the pleasures of daily scratching this year

has been just exploring stitch.

And so this brings us to October 28th.

Halloween is nearly here

and we wait to see what super storm Sandy will bring this week.

Misty Moisty Mornings

Starting our walk

It looked like early morning mist rising

But in fact it was descending

and soon we were walking

in a thick pea soup fog.

Back at home I stitched a bit more

on last Sunday's scratchings.

Good luck to all of you

in the path of this monster storm coming our way.

I know...Enough Already!

Every leaf speaks bliss to me,

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

Emily Bronte

A Week Gone By and Scratched

This week took up a lot of fabric and thread

Days are getting shorter

Nights are closing in

Tuesday felt like a patchwork kind of a day

That red berry lying on the path

got me thinking grey and red

First frost was on Thursday

Boy it was cold on the dike

my finger tips never warmed up

Just playing on Friday

On Saturday we fulfilled our civic duty

voting

in Municipal Elections

A pair of mallards frolicked in the pond.

I was going to fill the background with long grasses

but ran out of time!

How Can Anyone Stay Inside on a Day Like This?

Oh, the yellow grasses

and the scarlet maple leaves

the less showy oranges of Fall

and the scruffy reeds.

So inspiring each and every one.

Frosted Woodland and a Woodland Bear

Brrrr!

First frost of the season this morning

Little rose leaves edged in cold.

Dark brown branches against orangey red leaves.

Love it.

It being the season of beautiful woodlands

I was reminded of this little bear

made at least 20 years ago

He is called Woodland Bear.

I was into silk ribbon back then

Handy Hubby made his joints.

Being a Woodland Bear he enjoys reposing in fallen leaves!

If he were being stitched today

he would look very different.

Walking before Breakfast

Rosehips heavy with early morning dew

A little bit of red in the middle of the path

probably dropped by someone

as they ran for shelter as the RP's approached

The long necked one is out there every morning

fishing on the mudflats

for his breakfast.

Many leaves have fallen

but lots more to come

Rain Walking

A mountain walk in the rain

water everywhere

Beads of water formed

on fallen leaves

but only on the ones that landed upside down.

Scratched This Week

We started the week with Thanksgiving

followed by two days of just trying stitches

Then a windy, windy day

and the herons were back at the pond.

The coyotes were howling not far away

on our early morning walk.

The RP's and I walked a bit faster back along the dike than usual!

We lit the first fire of the season.

It's wet and windy

The leaves are falling

so I played with leaves.

Leaves of every colour are falling to the ground

Some are salmon in colour

but none are striped like this!

That's the trouble with variegated threads I find.

Sometimes it is the dullest that I like the most.