November 5 through 30

I am woefully behind!  Here is another photo dump post.  Hard to believe the end of the year is coming up.  I wish I could say I was going to cross the finish line strong on this project, but it's really with more of a limp.  But on the bright side, I certainly took a greater variety of photos this year and I challenged myself and I'm glad I stuck with it for as long as I did.

Here's November 5th through 30th:

Swans on the bayou near our house.

Something neat about getting older: fun reading glasses!

Tree in the parking lot at the library.

Cleaning and rearranging my bookcases.

First snow.

Dusk.

Thanksgiving vignette.

Busy intersection.

Beverage of choice.

Five minutes after filling the bird feeder.

 

Flag bunting in my office. 

Our "what I am thankful for" tablecloth.  I do believe Uncle Jeff coached Brady on this one.

My favorite movie.  Can you name it?

The console table Jeff built for our basement using AnaWhite's plans from Knock-Off Wood.

 

New knitting: felted coasters.

Photo Dump: October 13 - November 4

Flying to Virginia.

The mountain cabin where we stayed while in Virginia.  It was a magical place.

The campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where Jeff's niece is going to college.

Scenic overlook on Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  

Back to reality and leaf pickup.

Oh look.  A leaf.

Waiting for the light to change.

Frost on the hydrangea.

Trying out a photo wall configuration on the floor.  (Not with these photos or these frames.  Just going for a shape.  Already nixed this idea.) 

The back yard as of yesterday. 

I took my camera to work with me today and snapped this picture after I was done with my job. 

September 14 - 24

First glimpse of fall color.

Matt did it!  Here's proof.

I'm hooked on audio books.

Matt's been growing his hair long for the past 10 months.  He's not one to fuss, so a bandana and a ponytail it is.  Less than a week after I took this picture, he came home and it was BUZZED.  What a huge difference!

Watching the tube.

Return of the gray skies.

Like everyone else these days, we are tired of paying for a land line and cell phones, but we don't want to rely strictly on cell phones.  {Ours are not at all reliable in our house.}  So we are trying Ooma http://www.ooma.com/, a free* phone service that goes through the Internet.  You hook your modem and your land line to this device and, voila, you have phone service.  We'll see how it goes.  (*Free except for the fact that you have to pay taxes of about $5 every month.  And the Ooma device is not free either.)

More fall color.  The trees are turning more and more every day.   The only thing I don't  like about fall is how short it is.

Photo Dump

Wow.  One minute it's the middle of summer and the next thing you know fall is staring us in the face.  I've been trying to stick with Project 365, but I must admit that I have been missing more and more days.

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I took my niece's 5-year pictures.  It was great fun and I was pleased with the outcome.

A rainy day in the neighborhood.

We are 3 (again).  Matt has moved home after finishing his bachelor's degree in history.  Way to go, Matt!

I read a recommendation for this brand on someone's blog and ordered them from Zappos.  Most comfy flip-flops I've ever worn.

Annual geranium.

Messy spider web.  Maybe s/he has ADD?

Camera strap close-up.

Decided to try these botanical prints in our bedroom.  

Everyday objects.

Camping with my niece and her family.  What a great time we had.

Another perfect beach day.  So lucky.

Mom greeting guests at the annual corn roast. 

On the deck.

Every year this part of our lawn dies.  So I raked it up and spread some new soil and seeded it.  I hope this finally fixes the problem.  

It's September already.  But still pretty warm (for here, anyway).

Camping over Labor Day.  We had a little flood in our campsite on Saturday morning.

Last beach day of the year.  Kind of chilly and cloudy, but still beautiful.

One last cook-out.  We were almost out of charcoal, so we used our tiny Weber grill.

Standing in my yard, looking toward my neighbor's.

Our front door.

September 11.  A somber day.  One thing I remember so vividly about September 11, 2001, was how blue the sky was.  There wasn't a cloud in the sky.   And it was so incredibly quiet in our neighborhood.  No planes flying overhead, no lawn mowers, no children playing outside, very few cars on the road.  In addition to everything else I remember about that day, I will always remember how time seemed to stand still.

Watching the U.S. Open.  It's a family tradition.

Red squirrel.  Cute but destructive.  I am not a fan.  They nearly destroyed my bird house.