two punch tuesdays

there's a new place in town...

or like they say

"there is a new culture in town"

a sweet shop that sells frozen yogurt and all

the toppings your heart desires and sells it by the ounce.




it has the sweetest designs....


and christmas cheer was all around.

lots of choices to be made.....

what flavour yogurt.....what toppings.....

nonpareils, gummy bears, sprinkles, fresh fruit, chocolate chips

candy corn, cherries, broken up candy bars....

ethan, canaan, and jesse.

sweet cece's was great...come to franklin and enjoy.

pumpkin art

we had a very fun art project this week.

since we were not able to carve pumpkins on several different occasions

because of inclement weather...we had more than our share of

pumpkins sitting around....just waiting to be decorated.

so we pulled out our very best looking ribbons...our scrap booking papers...

glue...glitter....anything that you could embellish & decorate with.

then we picked our favourite pumpkins with the smoothest skin.

and away we went......to a land....

of fanciful pumpkins....where heart doilies became hats....ribbon

braided became hair...glitter became lips...

and voila......a masterpiece by abbey.

here is my paper mache' creation.

it was so much fun abbey wanted to do another one.

so on went the top~hat for the boypumpkin to go with the girl already created.

there was lots of ribbon used for his hair.

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abbey worked on this one for several days.....until.....

she came up with a very handsome fellow.

i stuck with the paper mache' except newspaper

was my medium this time. then i added the letter g.

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we had a great time decorating our pumpkins and now they are on display.

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happy times in november.

end of the line

i over think a lot of things....the photo contests for gardening gone wild is no exception.
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i told myself i was not going to enter this month because i think about it too much.
but once i saw a few blogs with their entries....i couldn't stop thinking about it...

everything i saw had lines...end of lines...both metaphorically and literally.


so here in the beginning of my post is
my entry for "the end of the line" theme of the ggw photo contest.


this way you can proceed beyond this point duly warned of my over thinking...
this first photo is of an antique red apple orchard~picking ladder...we have used it for so many different venues.

right now it is in the driveway leaning against a tree with an old garden cart at the base filled to overflowing with pumpkins and gourds and mums.

when i see this ladder i think of all the apples that have been
picked and come to the end of the line.

most of my photos that i chose to show you are literal...these

zinnias all lined up reminds me of all my child~like drawings with the sun

in one corner....the grass at the bottom of the page with

flowers drawn in a row across the entire page. see what i mean?

with our first and recent hoar frost...i thought of all the things that would

be at the end of their season...end of their line after the frost.

my sunflowers clutching each other for their last hoo~rah...

or how on a recent visit my daughter saw these amazing vineyard rows...

~photo below taken by my daughter rachel~

or how normally my smallish loose leafed lettuces got very

linear when left past their season reaching high to the sky with long

slender spikes with tender little white flowers.

then there is the wonderful curvy lane i live on where all roads lead home.

long expanses of fence line are all pointing the way home.

this is the road less traveled which makes for a therapeutic drive.

colours of autumn just enhance the beauty.

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the harpeth river runs through it and beckons you to see what lies beyond what you can see.

as well as does this long windy drive.....intriguing isn't it?

picturesque hardly describes it.

i love the way all the trees have their own

special qualities and colours that make them unique.

have to have a closeup of the burnished leaves.
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our neighbours have these gorgeous red bushes that line their driveway.

trees seem to call you over to take a look up there wonderful

textural trunks...to get a better look at all those coloured leaves.

lines of branches pointing skyward.

as we arrive back home with our tidy

row of fence line...holding a special treasure,

our precious horse, renny.

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hope you are having a happy autumn.