dual personalities

“How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present themselves for their diversion. The seedpods of stitchwort hang ready for delightful popping between thumb and finger, and later the bladder campion offers a larger, if less crisp, globe to burst. In the autumn, acorns, beechnuts, and conkers bedizen their path, with all their manifold possibilities of fun.”

― Miss Read, Village Diary

It is the clean-up season in America. The leaves are falling and piling up. The sound of leaf-blowers is ubiquitous. But there is rain in the forecast, so we are going to have a yard full of wet leaves and no time over the wet and stormy weekend to do anything about it.

C’est la vie. We’ll just have to chill and not stress about it.

Meanwhile the last of the brave flowers are blooming.

And the Christmas cactus is fabulous!

And here is another seasonal joy from those other two blogging sisters who also reside in my flyover state, the wonderful girls of A Beautiful Mess blog. You gotta love a turkey-shaped cheese tray! While we are chilling this weekend and not raking leaves, maybe we’ll get creative and put together one of these fantastic turkey trays.

But don’t forget: