SkyWatch Friday: It's beginning to look a lot like Autumn

I decided to take some photographs Wednesday of the fall leaves on the trees around my house and pick one for SkyWatch. The blue sky was such a good backdrop for the drama of the leaves.

Try as I might I couldn't pick just one. The first photograph is of the dogwood tree at peak and close to being past it with some leaves already fallen. The next one is the maple tree not quite peaking except for the leaves at the very tip.

I think I'll call the last shot anticipation as my big oaks are giving me a teaser of color but have a way to go. I'm reminded of Goldy Locks and the three bears - one too hot, one too cold, and one just right. Although to me all stages of fall foliage are just right be they beginning or ending.

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Please remember to get your peace globe before November 5

I hope that you will consider participating in Mimi's Blog Blast for Peace this year. I will be writing my post on November 5, 2009 for this event but wanted to go ahead and add my voice to encourage others to participate in this event. Please click here to go to Mimi Writes and get your own peace globe.



The globe above is the one I personalized and I will explain more about that on my Dona Nobis Pacem post on November 5. I was keeping this up as a sticky post but after some comments on my other blog, I realized I was confusing people since I had to post date it keep it at the top. Please visit Mimi Writes to get your own peace globe.

Wordless Wednesday: Say Cheese

A few words with this one - Hippocerous (1926-27) by Edgar Alexander McKillop has a phonograph built into his rear end. He is being shown in the Folk Musical Instrument gallery at the Abby Aldridge Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg (VA, U.S.).

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That's My World Tuesday - Colonial Williamsburg

The state I live in, North Carolina (U.S.), borders the state of Virginia. For a short vacation, Bill and I went to Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, and our daughter was able to join us. Below is Bill and our daughter in the colonial nursery.

For more information about the reconstructed colonial capital of Virginia you can click on this link. It's so extensive that I'm only going to post a smattering of the photographs I took.

We lucked out considering the abysmal weather forecast which called for rain the whole time we were there. It did rain some and sprinkle some but not enough to interfere with us walking around and seeing the sights.

They have reenactments of key events in the history of the colonial capital, and although that wasn't what interested me the most it was fun to see some of them since I haven't been there in a very long time.

I enjoyed seeing the animals which were part of the reconstruction. These horses were grazing in a pasture behind the Colonial Governor's Palace.

I thought it was interesting how ornate the back door of the Governor's palace was. I believe that's the way he beat a hurried retreat when the American Revolutionary war was brewing.

The gardens above, in the back of the palace are a nice mixture of hedges, topiary, herbs, and leafy edible plants. Below are the sheep which graze behind the weavers store. They do a good job of representing colonial life and you can see cabinet makers, weavers, and others working much as they would have in the past.

It was a good time of year for this trip because the gardens still had a lot growing and blooming but the autumn foliage was beginning to get fired up. I think I'll stop here and perhaps post more of my zillion fall trip photos another time.

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