Happy Halloween!!…

Now that I have grandchildren Halloween can make me a bit sentimental so this post is very nostalgic.   I loved sewing costumes for the kids and had fun scanning a few of my old photos.  The first was taken when my eldest, Ms O, was 3 years old…

 

 

 

Now my granddaughter is 3 years old and Ms O makes the costumes.  Instead of things like witches and devils and gypsies, the children wanted to be Batman and Pearl the squid…

Perhaps you never heard of Pearl?  My granddaughter, who loves all thing aquatic,  wanted to be the squid from Finding Nemo…..

I suppose I should admit here that I did bribe the children with candy to get them to pose…:)

Arcadia’s Autumn Mushrooms…

This is the season for mushrooms.  They pop up abundantly after every rain.  On my walks I meet mushroom gatherers who, hopefully, know the edible from the poisonous…no one wants to share the secret hiding places of the best to eat.  Every year I resolve to take a class on mushroom identification and then forget to sign up for one…and every year I try to take photos of those I find on walks around home.   I don’t own a macro lens so most of these shots are taken with my Canon G9 on macro setting.  I find beauty in these earthy things…and I’m pretty sure Sylvia Plath did too…

 

Sylvia Plath – Mushrooms

Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.

Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.

Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,

Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,

Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We

Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking

Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!

We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.

A Weekend Walk in Haiku…

All in fun, and inspired by Ruth of synch-ro-ni-zing, I went for a walk with haiku in mind….

So many acorns

squirrels will feast this winter

Oaks will grow in spring.

Young couples picnic

Old hunters start the season

I walk a worn path.

Midas touched maples

Reach out in autumn’s embrace

Gone with the next storm.

Ferns flicker yellow

The forest floor is aflame

No water will quench.

 

Imperfection…

Today, another of my photos was featured at Shutter Sisters One Word Project!  Two in one month…I must do “imperfect” well:)

“ Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.”

          Thomas De Quincey

Apple Season…

Apple picking is always a good photo opportunity…what is more beautiful than grandchildren and apples…

 

…and apple cake?

Toot!…

Tooting my own horn that is…I was following and enjoying Shutter Sisters even before I started a blog and I have often submitted photos to their One Word Project.  Today one of my photos was actually featured, illustrating the word for October…Imperfect….

Shutter Sisters always inspires me, as does my granddaughter’s creativity,  and I’m thrilled to have one of my photos displayed there.