October Photo Challenge: Great Outdoors

PJ's prompt this month was The Great Outdoors. Straightforward for those who love to be outside during the Autumn months. October is a transition month here in mid-Missouri. The season doesn't know exactly what it wants to be....it could be summer and 85F but the next day it's winter, 40F and cloudy/windy/rainy. We've already had …

BeautiFALL Part 1

Looks like Autumn is coming a little earlier this year even though temps are in the mid 80sF today. The trees seem to be turning sooner and peak may be close. I love Autumn, but like it when the trees hold on to their leaves and peak around the end of October so "brown season" …

Sunday Scripture

Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy. ~Psalm 96:12 Even though Spring is the normal time for the earth to explode with color after winter, for me, the colors that light the earth on fire in Autumn are doing exactly that....singing …

Quieter and slightly subdued

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. ~Henry Rollins October has put away …

October Photo Challenge: Liquid

October 2019 is on the books and it's time once again for PJ's photo challenge. This month's prompt was Liquid. We had various forms of liquid from the sky this month, but the worst is probably yet to come. I'm a day late, but yesterday, being Halloween, I was crazy busy with grand girl stuff …