It's OCTOBER!

 And I somehow missed a good post for ALAN's BIRTHDAY!!?!!
Well, here we go, with just 3 minutes (Pacific time) to spare!
=WHEW!!=.

🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALAN!!!!!! 🎂

There Goes September!

 

Michaelmas Daisies

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🥳 SURPRISE!! 🎂

My favourite moment of September. I'd never had a surprise party before!

As you see, I was blown away!  Then the grands came running with
squeals of delight and hugs!   😃👍  Best Birthday Ever!!  ✨💖✨ 

                                                                                                                              photos by Daughter

     
   (PS:  My utterly decadent coffee drink had a recyclable container and compostable straw.)

 

Took down the dying Birches...

Our original three Gray Birches have been dying for years. 

We kept them until the woodpeckers could no longer live in them.
This week we cut down the three and kept the smaller trees.
 We kept the stumps for now to see if we can make a seat there,

so when the grands come they'll have a place to read or romp.

 

Mushroom on the Old Birch

THIS JUST IN!  NASA's experiment went like clockwork!  We are now able to alter the course of an asteroid, should it be headed for Earth.  They just did it with a benign asteroid, and it worked perfectly.  They hit a pyramid sized asteroid with a refrigerator size spacecraft.  I took these photos with my iPhone, off CNN and happened to catch the 1/4 second when the red explosion lit up the asteroid before it hit! 👍


          

                    

                              

                                       

                                                  

                                                                    

                                                                   

 

Sunlight on the China Cabinet

 

The Garden, Out My Window

 

American Copper Butterfly on Autumn Joy Sedum

 

AUTUMN BEGINS at 9:04pm tonight

Calico Asters are also known as Farewell Summers

                                                                                                                                         en.wikipedia.com

 

The International Day of Peace

✨ Peace Roses ✨

Mama Rabbit on alert

 

Ahoy Dere Mateys! Dis here be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

                                
                                                                                    photo by Garry Gay


                                                                                                                   World History Encyclopedia

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🎵🥳 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PUDDLE!!! 🎂🎶

 

IT REALLY IS A CAKE!

Late Season Geranium

 

Crow in the Crabapple

 

Silver Mound

 

Amazing Pansies (that hardly ever got deadheaded!)

 

Autumn Joy Sedum

 

Lantana

 

21 YEARS

911 Memorial (click)

Everybody Gets a Slice!

 

listener is 67!

Sunrise over the Atlantic (Maine)

 

                                               by listener's friend Mahraiah Beam (used with permission)

The Queen has Died

 

Male Monarch on Zinnias

 

NEW RELEASE TODAY!!!

 Wil's book is officially available! 

It's The Wizard of Oz as if it were written by Shakespeare
with all new illustrations by our talented daughter-in-law

Why write it thus, you may well ask. 
It's because of a conversation between Grandad Wil and VT*Grand (Ivy),
back when she was 11.

       "Ivy, how are things in school?"
       "Fine," she answered.
       "Are you doing anything with Shakespeare?"
       "No, but I know who Shakespeare is.  He wrote, Romeo and Juliet."
       "Yes!"
       "And The Wizard of Oz," she continued.
       "The Wizard of Oz?"
       "Well, maybe not The Wizard of Oz."

      "Well, maybe..." thought Grandad...

                                 

If you've ever wondered:  How did the Scarecrow become alive?  How did the Tin Woodsman became a man of tin and what was he before? Where did the Cowardly Lion come from?  Wil addresses all of these and more, tying up loose ends that have never been addressed before.

It's out in a beautiful hardcover and will soon be available as an e-book.

For all the Rosies and all who work hard...

 

Black-Eyed Susans

 

Grey Barn

 

Just One More Question...

 

It's SEPTEMBER

 

Thanks for the fun, August!

 

RUNDLE (absolutely stunning)

 

RONA (who has two tiny horns and amazing curly wool)

 

CHIP (who is rather shy)