Taking a siesta

Life has gotten very busy and there is too little precious time to keep two blogs going, so I'm letting this blog take an indefinite siesta while I concentrate on my personal journal blog, The Beacon.

I hope to be back someday, but in the mean time, visit me at The Beacon. I promise to post lots of photos. I've also taken all the posts and comments from this blog and imported them into The Beacon blog. If you see something here you want to comment on, you'll find it over there, too.

Until I'm back, I'm taking down my Entrecard widget.  Thank you to everyone who has advertised here over the past year or so. It's been fun.

Mr. November 2010

Mr. Thor is going to be a calendar boy. One of these two photos (or a crop there of) has been selected to be the November photo in the BARC 2010 calendar. BARC is the Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, from which we adopted Thor five years ago.

I'm not sure which photo was selected. I like the vertical one better, but I'm guessing the horizontal works better in a calendar.

These photos were taken in November 2007. I tried to capture a similar series this year, but the fall wasn't quite so pretty. See the photo of Loki and Thor below.

To order your own calendar, which is full of photos of lots of adorable Bernese Mountain Dogs, go to the BARC fundraising page or here.

Still in bloom

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I've forgotten what this plant is called, but I know I liked it because of its alien appearance. I thought I'd killed it through neglect while I was pregnant over the summer and when Xander came home, but after cutting it back, it's re-bloomed.

With cold weather and autumn rapidly descending on us, it's nice to see some flowering action in the back yard.

Autumn arrangements

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I was out on a stroll with Xander when I saw this wheelbarrow filled with fall flowers and a pumpkin out front of someone's house.