It's a beautiful day for a country walk, hope you'll join us!
the clouds are so pretty
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| TINY white fairy flowers beneath my boots |
and a slight nip in the Fall air (which will very soon be Winter!).....got my shawls out. I have a big collection of shawls, been collecting them for YEARS NOW. LOL
We don't really get "Fall" here as traditional Fall, the trees don't "turn" and have all the bright foliage.
Just bits of colors scattered here and there
Not too many leaves that fall here, the good part is we don't have TO RAKE, lol
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| .....and a big bin of "punkins", fun to see this time of year! They are quickly being replaced by Christmas merchandise, and there are fresh Christmas trees being sold. Our Thanksgiving was nice, and I've enjoyed reading about everybody else's.   |
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| Tracie and Amybelle got to go outside to play! |
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| this beautiful old platter belonged to Mr. Front Porch's Grandma |
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| this hangs in our kitchen |
I sure enjoyed a long walk and picking my own cotton! After it's harvested, I'm free to take some left-overs.
Thanksgiving day at home was more of the same:
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| And we ate left-overs for quite a few days |
I love these fun butter sculptures!
And I know each year when I see these berries, Christmas is close:
the stores have put the egg nog out! Egg nog is one of those things you either love it hate it, I guess. Kind of like spinach, anchovies, mushrooms, brussels sprouts.....LOL
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| I love egg nog! |
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| Christmas coffee creamer, I haven't tried it |
Hope you are enjoying the Christmas season so far. Our shopping is complete and I am working on Christmas cards this week, as well as putting up our Christmas tree.
How is yours coming along?
What a lovely post! I enjoyed my walk with you around your property and also the cotton field! I love to see the fresh white cotton balls and think about how wonderful our cotton sheets, clothes, linens are! But I also think how hard it was for people in the 1800's, etc., to harvest that cotton...oh my! I'm so glad they have found ways to harvest it now so people don't have to pick it all by hand anymore. You look so pretty in your lovely shawl and also your other outfit while out in the fields. And Tracie and Amybelle are so cute in their fall outfits! I'm glad they were able to get outside and enjoy a fall day with you. I wish Lily Grace could come and play with them sometime! Wouldn't they have so much fun???? You are ahead of me if your shopping is all done and working on cards...I am just getting started on cards and shopping...but our house is decorated. Maybe I have it all backwards! But being sick this past week put a damper on my going anywhere to shop. Hopefully this week and next will be better. I enjoyed your post and look forward to hearing from you again soon. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely smorgasbord of the delights of FALL spread out here this icy morning!! You covered about all the bases but Cider 'n' pie, and I have no doubt that your versions are supreme.
ReplyDeleteThat Cotton field!!! I used to lie and look out at one out my window from First Turning to Turning in, year after year, and this version was one of my favorites---the spent stalks with their tulle ball-gowns, all danced out from the season, and ready to hibernate til Spring brings another lacy invitation.
And you look ready for a the Ball, yourself, Pretty Girl, with your fall colors and bright sequins and expectant face for whatever fun is in store. This Fall has swooped past in three days, it seems, whishes of wind, chill over the Weatherbush, and Iron Hard Cold twice now---this one lasting a week already, with my car and walks covered, and the happy cheer of a tiny quicksilver little girl and her Daddy yesterday, here to dip everything in reach into chocolate and sprinkles.
What an afternoon---two hours of sweet fun turned out three boxes of dipped cookies, two kinds of pretzels, and enough Oreos to supply a Mississippi VBS. Back to the dipping table today, with a change of cover and nine times that much STUFF to do, with the bubbly pots in action all afternoon. Leah is a wizard with the nonpareils and decor, and she'll have nine big Tuppers snugged away with their yummy contents before nightfall.
They're for a dessert table for Sweetpea's Christmas Tea on Sunday; she's invited three of her fellow Seniors and her Mom to join us for four o'clock tea and goodie bags overflowing with whatever they choose and bag from that loaded table. I want their memories of their time with us and with her to be ever so sweet, this year of so many changes, such movings-on in their lives as they step out into their bright futures.
AND I WISH YOU AS MUCH SWEET BRIGHT AS YOU CAN GATHER IN YOUR ARMS. You have certainly Brighted me in these years of our friendship, and I've enjoyed our across-the-miles repartee and correspondence so much!!
ETA: I haven't been to a Church Supper in years, but have such fond memories of the Second Saturday Suppers at our little country church where my children grew up. It's a sweet tribute to such a familiar old favorite that there are so many devilled/stuffed/dressed eggs (different families called them different names). And God Bless Tupperware and wonderful cooks, all those companies made a special piece of dishware for that particular dish. We don't all have a "slaw bowl," or a "Macaroni Salad dish," but stuffed eggs, now,---those are a vital part of a Southern cooks repertoire, like sugar or not in the cornbread, and Martha White or White Lily?
ReplyDeleteI had a sweet, reminiscent giggle over the half-dozen different Egg Carriers---you'll note CARRIERS, because those eggs were important, and everybody liked them, and I'll bet there hasn't been a Church Supper, Pot Luck or Block Party without that golden dish shining amongst the Jello Molds and Seven Layer Salads. Today's too sunny to get into that Pickle Relish debate that's severed friendships. If I can lift it, could I borrow that picture for a LAWN TEA post?