Hey! It's a Give Away

I had a great weekend and I hope all my friends in Blogland did as well. Thanks for all of the nice comments about the bird pendants. I appreciate it and really like hearing from you.

I'm giving away one of the birdie pendants. I picked this one to give away as fall is right around the corner. Leave a comment and you'll be in the drawing! I'm going to draw on Wednesday.

How much do you love sultry August evenings with the orange orb of a sun lazily sinking into the hazy horizon? I shot these pictures tonight at my mom and dad's farm.

Sunset over the bean field...............

The black-eyed Susans are in full bloom!

But there are these little bugs flying all over them. They don't eat the plant. I'm not sure what kind of bugs they are, can anyone tell me?????

Lastly I'm leaving you with Nanny and Pops giving Buddy The Wonder Dog a bath yesterday. He actually likes getting a bath. He was particularly dirty as he rolled in motor oil!

Oh yah! Here he is drying out after his bath. It was about 88 degrees yesterday so I'm sure he was feeling pretty good all wet and shaggy!

Now Buddy Blue-Eye is squeaky clean!

Here's wishing you a happy Monday and don't forget to leave a comment to be in the drawing for the birdie pendant!

Winter has come to Pennsylvania!

It snowed on and off all week here in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Some places got a lot more snow then other places. I live about 30 minutes from my mom and dad and have about 4 inches of snow whereas they have about 7 inches. Buddy love the snow, he runs through it like a rocket, bites it and lays in it! Here he is giving me a kiss......or manybe he was trying to bite the string of my yak hat, I'm not sure........ Let it snow..........let it snow............let it snow...............

A snowy tree.........

Summer's cone flowers become puffy sculptures.....

Red barbberry bush.........

The Snow King.......

Do you have any snow where you live?

Late Summer Yellow

How about that yellow of late summer? I love yellow, it's such a "feel good" color. Yesterday I was at my mom and dad's and took these pictures of her sunflowers and black-eyed Susans. I also took a few snaps of my mom's dog, Buddy........also known as "Buddy-the-Wonder-Dog"! He's an Australian cattle dog and loves to herd just about anything, despises birds, loves potato chips and hates anything that makes noise (he flips out when an electric mixer is turned on).

Check out his one gorgeous ice blue eye...........then there's the other one.....not so gorgeous!
Looking at these flowers, the dried out grass, the nip in the air at night and the bending golden rays of sunlight makes me think that we might just be going to have an early fall here in Western Pennsylvania. This makes me think of the amazingly talented folk artist I stumbled upon on Flickr. Her name is Catherine Holman and I love all of her folk art paintings but especially the autumn ones. There is such an honest simplicity yet extreme detail in her paintings. I want to climb into those paintings and live there! Also she has the most wonderful narratives which tell a little story about who lives in the houses.......it's like reading a Fanny Flagg book....so folksy! Please click on her name above and take a few minutes to view her wonderful folkart paintings.