Awwww Monday: It’s Awfully cold already!

Hello again! It's Cabo here on a chilly October Monday morning. Normally, my fur coat keeps me wooly warm, but I had a spa day last week and I must say it was terribly bad timing. I was sporting a very warm fur coat now that the season has changed...although Mama said it was getting …

October Photo Challenge: Oh, The Places I’ve Been

October is finished and it's time again for PJ's photo challenge. This month's prompt is Oh, The Places You'll Go. This is so open to interpretation, but I chose the traditional route because....It was a very busy month! But, since I sometimes don't do well with rules, a couple of these have more than one …

Seasonal musings

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives—all bear secret relations to our destinies.  ~François-René de Chateaubriand …

Sympathy for decay

"I love autumn," Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay." ~Nicholas Sparks, Two By Two While the trees here in middle Missouri are ramping up for their show, other areas are finishing with the warm up act. Most eyes are on the main event, but …

October Photo Challenge: Photographer’s Choice

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year! You might think phrase as a bit odd for October....when there isn't a jingle bell or snowflake in sight...at least in middle Missouri. But PJ's prompt this month is Photographer's Choice, sooooo my choice is to feature my favorite season of the year...Autumn. Use what you have, use what …