seriously, it did.....

i'd marry him.....

 i'm totally in love with this fungi

and 

his extended family. 

WHAT? i can't help it...i love a "fun guy." 

i hope you find it.....

i've been going through my photos and wishing i was better organized.

wishing i had a file where all the photos i've used here on my blog lived. {as these may be repeats, who knows}
wishing the photos i edit and the photos that just live on my computer {without an obvious or instantaneous love or hate fest from deep within me, but where i feel that maybe they should be kept, "just in case"} didn't take up so much room.

obviously "photo organization" {including hard drive back-ups, timeline backups and disc making} will be what fills my days when winter arrives {and takes me prisoner while practicing its famous choke hold and butt kicking moves on me} but for now...ta-da, the vineyard in all its splendor.

this vineyard/winery is our newest love...and it's only 20 minutes from our house. we spent an afternoon there earlier this summer, when i took these photos, and then again just last week.

last week we actually "planned" our trip and took a picnic lunch with us. someone said, "oh, you must be regulars." we laughed...and i thought, well not quite yet, but close.

fall is here. full out fall and the green in these photos is fading...

but the reds and oranges and yellows and browns are plentiful and we love it. i mean really, who doesn't? seriously, who doesn't love {and i mean LOVE} fall?

i'm loving this song and this song and really wishing for so many reasons that i played the guitar and could speak spanish fluently. just saying.

have an amazing "fall" weekend with your loved ones, or all alone reading a great book and dancing to your favorite music.

whatever you do, wherever you go, i hope it's perfect...and beautiful.

bee butts.....and the first of october

"the bees are so bad this year" seems to be part of every conversation this fall. well, they are bad. really bad. my sister-in-law got stung when she was visiting from seattle a few weeks ago and my little sister's dog eats them.

guess what, the stink bugs are really bad this year, too.

i don't know what it is about pumpkin patches that i love, but oh, they get me every year. lucky for me, my sister and her hubby have a "patch" filled with pumpkins and gourds and this year we even found chinese lantern plants growing...and she didn't even know they were there.

see...the surprises, love and magic of fall.
 

i have to tell you that i love when all the new shows start up in the fall and so far, i am loving "blacklist" with james spader. he's just creepy enough to make it work and the show often makes me think of "silence of the lambs" for some reason. have you seen it?

did anyone watch "betrayal" on sunday night? is that one going to make it? at first i wasn't loving the main characters, but by the end, they had grown on me.

sydney, the bee eating dog

~

i hope wherever you are that fall is embracing you, or that you're embracing fall and that your  relationship continues long into the month of october.

feeling.....

feeling blessed by mother nature

feeling creative because of deb

feeling the love of the beach...still

oh,

and was i the only one out the other night when the "harvest" moon arrived? 

i hope not. 

unclog me.....

 {a pile of my moo cards}

if you know me, you know i'm talker.
i'm someone who can carry on conversations with complete strangers {sometimes more easily than with people i know} for hours and rarely am i silent. if i am, those around me want to know what's wrong.

so when i feel it's been awhile since i've blogged, but i honestly feel like i have nothing worth sharing, it's a bit disheartening. i want to be here. i want to be present. i want to share. i want to tell my story. i want to share my photos and my life. but then "blah" and "meh" step in and i feel i have nothing.

blogger's block. please send drano. or chocolate.

i've been taking deb's mishmash class and that's been putting a smile on my face everyday. she is one of the most loving, silly, artistic and talented women i have ever met. and yes, i did meet her in person. she is one of the many bloggers whose path i've been lucky enough to cross in real life and for that i am grateful.

it's was a year ago yesterday that my sixteen year old nephew was killed in a car accident and there's not a day that goes by that i don't think of my sister and her hubby and all that they have endured this past year.

remember, it's the "dash" that matters.

it takes a lot.....

{it takes a lot to make me want to peck out your eyeballs}

i love target.
i hate rude and selfish people.
today at target, everyone was in la-la land, which seems to be the norm lately.

people, if your children are kinder than you are, paying attention to the fact that YOU have left your cart in the middle of the aisle again, learn from them. if your children say excuse me and please and thank you when YOU should be saying it, learn from them.

adults, you do not have the right to just walk right out in front of a moving vehicle in a parking lot because you're in a hurry or texting. if your kids are doing this, it's because they have seen you do it, so stop yelling at them and teach them instead.

if you don't have your coupon with you, guess what? you can't use it. so don't waste the cashier's time asking if you can use a coupon you don't have with you and expect him to explain why not.

target is not a playground. just because it's raining outside does not give you the right to let your kids run loose through the place like it's a gymnasium.

more and more i'm aghast at the rudeness that i seem to see in so many people. almost everyday i go out and almost everyday someone has done something in a rude or obnoxious way in which i truly believe they think they are entitled to do just because they're breathing.

what has happened to our society?

i hope everyone reading this lives in an area where they can't even begin to relate to what i'm talking about. where everyone is beyond kind and full of manners that just ooze out of them.

if you do, please let me know where that is...i'm moving there.