Shades of Fall

I love the colors of Fall!

I guess I better start canning...

Back in the day,

when I had a houseful of children,

especially the teen years

(when boys can eat 24/7)

I use to can everything.

We have always had a garden

and would can and can from about

August to October every year.

Now that we are (nearly) empty nesters,

I don't can anymore

Mondays high temp was around 85 degrees.

Today it was about 45 degree.

These are the last of the tomatoes.

My husband covered the bushes with a tarp

and hopes to have a few more by the weekend,

but I think the garden is done.

Normally we have a large crop of pumpkins

and share with the whole neighborhood.

This year...only 2!

I guess I better get out my canning stuff...

Goodbye Summer...

...I will miss you!

Goodbye BBQ's and outdoor parties.

Goodbye to sleeping with the windows open.

Goodbye to camping and S'mores by the fire.

Goodbye to garden fresh veggies picked 5 minutes ago.

Goodbye to sandal wearing weather!

I will miss you (for the next 7 months!)

Today: 65 degrees and rain showers

Tomorrow: 45 degrees and snow!

I need a warm weather vacation!

Last Bit off Fall

I was walking home from a friends funeral today,

when I spotted this....

...a few little fall leaves sticking out of the snow.

Beauty in simplicity

Fall is in the air!

Growing up in a beach community, I never really experienced the four seasons of the year. After 27 plus years in the Rocky Mountains, I still love all four seasons...well, maybe not alot of the cold Winter.

I got out the Fall/Halloween decorations this last weekend. The produce is from our garden and a local farmers market. The little trick or treater is one of my Mom's old decorations I inherited a few years ago...the candy in her little sack is probably 20 years old!
I always wanted to have a quilt to put out for each season, but I've never seemed to manage making & keeping the quilts for myself. This quilt I won at a open house for a quilt shop in Centerville (Utah). The shop doesn't exist any longer, unfortunately. I always put this quilt out to decorate each Fall for about 10 years now.

Happy Fall!