Lovely little things...from last fall

I am incredibly frustrated with blogger. For a week now I have been unable to add pictures to my posts. And I have spent an absurd amount of time trying to figure out why.... 

But no luck. So I am going to just put up this post from last fall that never got put up for some reason. Probably because I was busy. 

It is snowing like crazy--24 inches so far. It seems to be slowing down a little bit. But we have a snowday to unbury ourselves and I am enjoying it thoroughly! 

So back to last fall. It feels a bit surreal to be posting these pictures when it is snowing and blowing outside... 

It seems like a completely different world. Less white somehow... Ha!

Taking a walk together

Happy cows

Running home

Love this picture of my Orianna girl

The last of the asters

Morning cornfield

Amish corn harvest

Fall rain

Making brownies

Morning walk

Wisps of morning fog

Love these trees!

Gilbert being Grandpa

Leaves

Grapes

Squash from the Amish farm up the road

Frosty leaves

Horse drawn corn harvester

Colors

Geese

Pumpkin pile

Dramatic fall skies

Sumac

Stone house

Empty cornfields

Puff ball

Stopping in to see Lucy in October--last time we saw her. But she actually remembered us, so it is very special for us to have this memory of her.

The Amish farm on our road

Frosty newspaper box

Other Amish farm

Puffing wood smoke

Frosty Lambs ear

Pictures of January

I have been suffering my ususal mid-winter dearth of pictures. And pictures are what this blog is really about. So when I don't take a lot of pictures, I don't post. Here are all the non-book pictures I took in the month of January. 

Our winter has been completely non-existent after our huge snow in November. And now all the sudden we have had over a foot of snow in the past 24 hours. Hello, winter!

But here are January pictures. And I apologize in advance for all the crystallized pictures, but it was so beauteous and fascinating to me!

One day was gorgeously frosty 

I took loads of pictures. 

Our little creek

You are probably bored with crystals, but I am not. 

A nest

This is our place from the backside. 

Some of our woods

Stone wall on our property. 

This makes me so happy. I feel all acreage should have a stone wall. 

This tree has loads of mushroom. Which I take to mean the tree is dying or something. But anyway, they are kind of cool looking. 

If you think of them as tree warts, it is kind of weird. 

Not sure what these are. I just liked their berry colored translucence. 

Back to the creek again

With the drought we had this summer, this was really not a creek. It was bone dry--dusty. Hopefully it is a real creek. 

I wish I had had my zoom lens. But these are still pretty cool!

Saturday afternoons--Barbies

Lily's paper doll collection. She mostly just likes  cutting them out and adding to her collection more than playing with them. 

Whenever a new catalog comes in her eyes get a greedy look to them. "Mum, are you needing this?" Nope, cut away. 

Gilbert and Elsie's cornbread picnic

Our exciting news--Suhit and Teresa are going to around a bit! Teresa has a job in Malone, which is very exciting! The kids adore them and we have a lot of fun with them! 

They have been in Canada a year, but they are originally from India, so they have all sorts of fascinating details to tell us.

Yay! for more friends around!