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my craft girls were anxious for at least the group photo so i am putting it up on it's on for now.
my weekend was PACKED.
literally filled up every minute and i fell asleep at my computer last night after midnight.
i will write a post later today if i find a minute (or 30) to stop.
i have dr appts. today and grocery shopping and craft check lists to do.
and all of these trees are in my yard.
today is a beautiful fall day. i am really irritated that i didn't go for a run this morning.
it was windy then.
but perfect now…too bad there are a bunch of kids here…six total. and so noisy.
i could use a run right now.
or an escape of any kind….anyone need me to go to the dentist for them….the obgyn… clean your bathrooms.
i will be there. it's been a long week.
i am thankful it's friday. big time.
what are you doing tonight?
give me some ideas….so i don't go crazy (since i didn't run and my nerves are shot.) Thank you so much for posting this. This is indeed a lovely pictures. I do love Fall it is actually my favorite time to have my teeth clean at the dentists ottawa in time for the holiday season. Thanks again for posting this! I love seeing all of your lovely fall photos. It’s my favorite season and you capture Kansas fall perfectly. I was born and raised in Ottawa, KS, but moved away a few years ago when I married a Marine. Thank you for posting the beauty of Kansas that I miss so much! I am with you …I can’t get enough of the fall color! each one I see is more beautiful than the last! hope you got a chance to recharge over the weekend, windy Monday is here! The view down the road in front of your house is so peaceful. Love it. I should have read your blog yesterday when I was feeling the same way you were, then I would have known I wasn’t alone. Jack Johnson 🙂 Seriously. You always inspire me to go take pictures of so much natural beauty outside. So, I went in my backyard with my Nikon. Sadly, I couldn’t find a single change in leaf color. =) Great pictures! I love Fall. My favorite time of year… Wouldn’t it be fun to go for a run together? I soooo know what you mean about needing to go for a run… I hear that… <3 Well, I straightened up the kitchen kissed my kids and husband goodbye, Scooped up Dear Daughter off of the bus and headed out to teach my 5:45 healing yoga class:) Came home and my husband had dogs on the grill and a beautiful cucumber tomato avo salad on the side:) I gave him a big kiss and relaxed vegging out in front of fb and tv. Next time leave the kids with one of the older kiddo’s in charge and go for a run or take in a relaxing yoga class 😉 lol…love the the appt. offer 🙂 Ohhh! Thank you … 🙂 Just watched “About a Boy” and was reading blogs and getting crafty ideas. Watching Sabrina and flipping back and forth between that and Sleepless in Seattle awww man! home made pizza and movies here too. that’s how you’ll find us spending our friday nights, unless something else comes up. usually works out well, since hockey, soccer and dance are on the other weeknights and the rest of the weekend. i find it’s the perfect way to unwind with the peep’s after a long week. while the crust was rising we took a family walk on the train tracks that run along side the lake where we live. it was a nice crisp fall day here on vancouver island, no rain, lot’s of fall colour on the trees, and a pretty sunset on the lake. your ahead in time than me, so hopefully your house has quieted down by now : ) A nice, quiet night at home for us tonight…homecooked dinner, followed by cider and donuts and a new tradition (ala Nienie) of watching the legend of sleepy hollow with the boys…a perfect October night! Not going to lie: A little tipsy from some beers and full from decent bbq (I’m a Texan living up north, so it’s slim pickins), kids are playing with neighbors, I just talked to my mom for 30 mins about one of my brothers, making lists about what needs to be done instead of just getting things done, brainstorming about a bday present for party on Sunday, and burning incense because there is a funky smell in my bathroom because, according to the plumber, a vent on top of our house is clogged. Oh, and I am sad about Big Tex. Here’s something completely different: go to ancestry.com and sign up for All these pics are about light. Ever since you said photography was all about light I can see it in the images. Now if I could find the light in my lens. You are so funny! Scrambled eggs for dinner and we are going to watch Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer!? Hmmm not quite sure I’m going to like that. Just a wild and crazy night here in my house. assuming you watch the x factor, you could just re-watch the two episodes that were on last week over again because they were soooo good. especially the two 13 year old girls at the end. amazing. i’ve watched both episodes twice!!! are you watching??? you totally should. my kids think i’m going crazy with how much i love those girls. i’m just super jealous i wasn’t blessed with a good singing voice!! we are eating homemade pizza and watching movies. these plans were made entirely by my hubby. reason #509 why i love him:) stop with the leaves you brat Love fall and all the photos of the oak leaves. My favorite tree lately. We are going to watch a movie shortly, just the kids and I until hubby gets home from work. We try to do that a couple of times a month, and will probably do that each week this winter. Where mom (me!), actually watches the whole thing without doing anything else during the movie, a tough feet for this busy hands. Driving 4 girls and meeting 11 more to dinner, Cotillion, then back again. Can Totally relate to wanting to do something else, ha! I woke up this morning and my hubby asked me why I kept turning off the alarm. “I have to do boring things today. I do not want to get up.” Us mamas are tired on Fridays and frequently, it’s a busy night! Hi Meg! I feel your pain today. Friday’s are supposed to by my days off to play. I usually hike or have lunch with a girlfriend, but I had so much catch up work to do today (house chores) that I ended up doing chores like vacuuming the beds, washing and changing sheets and endless piles of laundry. BORING! I use to be able to take a day off from laundry, but as my kids get older there’s just more laundry to do. Wine, get some, it’s relaxing. Sewing too. Grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s then snuggling in bed with hubby after baby goes to bed and watching Revolution and Grimm on the dvr. Dave Matthews Band! We are having a movie night, Winnie the Pooh 😉 I’m sure that movie might not work for your kids though. It’s always an easy way to transition into the weekend around here. hi meg. i feel your pain – i have 6 girls in my house right now – i think if i closed my eyes i would think i was at a justin bieber concert right now. i too would take a pelvic exam in exchange……….well maybe NOT. My husband and I were going to get a bite to eat tonight, but now I think I am stuck home with Little Caesars pizza, screaming girls and justin bieber!!!! I think I will lock myself away in my bedroom and organize my jewelry – my inspiration comes from Paige: http://paigeknudsen.com/ P.S. Also just downloaded my first EVER iTunes. Yep, helllllo 2012! Blues Traveler Run Around was my first song. Looking for tunes to play in the background when my girlfriends come over for dinner. Suggestions? Beautiful pictures, Meg! Thank you! beautiful pictures! wouldn’t it be sad to live where there was only one season? hope you have a good weekend and get some quiet for a few 🙂 hired a baby sitter for my kidlets and heading out to supper with hubby and before we head home maybe just a walk together . Then home and hopefully she gets everyone in bed before we get home . Wishful thinking there I am sure. Lovely photos, Meg! Great job capturing the light. We are still waiting for fall to arrive in Cali. Can’t wait-its supposed to be here next week I’m hosting a sleepover for 10 boys (+ Avery) tomorrow. the colors are so gorgeous that it makes me laugh on those (many) days when I feel so “gray” on the inside! Trying to motivate myself to get to the 6:00 Crossfit class or I will be Mt. Vesuvius by 8:00. Last night we had a floor picnic/family movie night. We turned off all the lights, I gave them treats…90 minutes of relative peace. I download Kindle books onto my iPhone so I can snuck in some reading during the movie. That, and Words with Friends. (Do you play that or Draw Something? Both are mindless distractions!) Waiting to head home from work and hibernate! The kids have a day off of school and we are having a huge snow storm. Watching Project Runway, bath or long shower, crafting. Plus lighting a fall candle and leisurely drinking some decaf coffee. 🙂 I’m a mama to a busy 16-month old and 8 months pregnant. Friday nights are the one night for me! 🙂 my friend Jeanne is starting a new e*course on Oct 22 and it looks amazing!
i am all signed up….i hope you join and we can take it together! CLICK HERE to read all about it and sign up. maybe i will get some inspiration for the farm house! :)
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also…. my friend amy has an etsy shop and i went by yesterday and said out loud "HOW IS THIS STILL HERE?!!" her shop has some really cute stuff for great prices. i want this chalkboard but i have no where for it….but i KNOW that you do!
and this pillow? and this HOME? wood grain and turquoise…it's totally rad. a green scale that is the perfect mix of paint and rust…. be still my vintage heart. i just love her shop. *************************************************************** i really wish parenthood was on last night instead of the debate. i just wanted my braverman fix. i think i will go watch last weeks episode again…. who is your favorite character on that show? you already know mine….
That whale chalkboard! My website is called “The Cheeky Whale”, so I pretty much need to get it. I love to watch the debates. In my opinion, this is the most important election of my lifetime. At least up to this point. The two candidates have two very different visions for America, and I want to be informed. I went to college with him! (Pete K.) He was in plays there and super, super talented. Oh, lord. Everyone has a responsibility to educate themselves and vote. Your husband tells you how to vote?? Are you kidding me? Look all, Parenthood is a great show and a lot of fun, but picking the next president of the United States is important. Pay attention already. Love me some Parenthood, too. I’m surprised so many people like Kristina. I find her annoying. The same goes for Hattie. I don’t even know why. I like Sarah and Amber way more. They’re both fun, smart and witty. Also I think Camille is great. I think she’s and ideal mom of adult children. I don’t think I have a favorite man character. And definitely no crushes 😉 But I like them all. Parenthood is THE best show on! I love watching the dynamics of a big family and I just bawled last week when Hattie showed up and they broke the news to the whole family. I love a good cry 🙂 I’ve always rather enjoyed watching Joel since the very first episode of Parenthood ;o) that shop is chock full of goodness! Ooooh I love that “HOME” sign! Alas, I just checked and it is gone. Thanks for sharing her shop though. There are so many Etsy stores and sometimes it’s hard to sift through them all. Hello ! I missed it the other night too. Couldn’t they have picked another night for the debate? :)Anyhoo, I don’t know if I can just pick one Braverman…I love them all. Okay Adam and Christina are probably my faves…but really I love the whole dang family. I’m proud to say I have watched every episode from the start-it’s my favorite! 🙂 Pick one character??? I agree Max is a phenomenal actor but Sarah is my fave:) can’t wit til next week! I love Parenthood and missed it last night too. Sooo tired of the debates and the bickering. Let’s just all get along people! All love all the characters on Parenthood but I am partial to Max because I have two sons with autism. They do a great job of portraying asperger’s syndrome. I do want to marry Adam or Joel… Ohmygosh…because of YOU and a few FB friends I started watching Parenthood Season 1 on Netflix (plan to zoom right through until now)…I think I’ve cried every episode…I totally love it. Crosby!!!! My hubs stayed up an hour and a half later than usual because he wanted to watch it and we saw that the debate was on and our hearts sank. LOVE Parenthood! Every week my husband and I ask ourselves why it doesn’t win any awards? He says because it is too close to real life. 🙂 I love Max, purely because he is an AMAZING actor. I also cry every.single.week. Looking forward to Tuesday! Parenthood is the best! Crosby is my favorite because even when he screws up he readily admits it and tries to make things better. He’s a diamond in the rough that gains more sparkle every episode. And he’s easy on the eyes. I’m a huge Parenthood fan too! I love Adam, but he is followed closely by Joel. I just love Kristina… probably because we’re similar in personality. 🙂 I love Adam, but he reminds me too much of my Sunday School teacher to think he’s hot… That would be crossing a very weird line for me. 🙂 Wow, such cute STUFF. 🙂 Adam is way cool but Monica Potter is doing such a FABULOUS job this season. I am in tears EVERY. TIME. Love the Bravermans. They rock! I so look forward to watching every week, and am like you, disappointed when it’s not on. okay yes. yes to all that vintage beauty. yes to bravermans. seriously cannot handle the debates either. honestly i don’t have it in me to be political. my husband tells me how to vote. yes, i’m serious. i should have lived a century ago. i’d fit right in. plus i could get breakfast in bed so that’d be swell. okay parenthood…i LOVE julia and joel’s relationship. so good and real and sweet. joel is def my fave character. i loved whatever season that was that he looked at julia and said, “i will never cheat on you.” aaaahhhh…perfection. okay, also i loved the episode last season where kristina made everyone get out of the car and walk home. ha! now that’s real life right there. how many times have i wanted to do that?? one bazillion. totally love Adam… HUGE crush. but curiously fond of bad boy brother Crosby. 🙂 I have been looking for a “HOME” sign for months and when I saw this one on your post I immediately went to her shop and cannot find it. I must’ve been too late. 🙁 Her shop has some really cool things, tho. I just bought that whale of a chalkboard! I’m super stoked! Oddly enough, my bf and I’s relationship started with whaley finny flirting. 🙂 My favorites on the show are Julia and Joel. I would much rather be married to the Joel character than the Adam one. I find Christina a bit too much at times but I really like her daughter Hattie. YES I’m so glad you were brave enough to say what I was afraid to–I would rather watch Parenthood than most things, ESPECIALLY the debates. I care about my country but I can’t stand the tension either! I agree, I missed Parenthood too! The debates just make me anxious. Everyone (and I mean everyone) is so mean-spirited and sarcastic. We don’t need that. I love that picture of Adam. He and the guy that plays Joel(Julia’s husband) are tied in my book. Also, I really like Ray Romano on the show. I hope his character sticks around. He has good chemistry with Lauren Graham (Sarah). I love Parenthood and was so bummed when I realized it wasn’t on. Hated the debate and went to bed! I wish we could see more of Camille. I just feel like there is so much more to her. I am very happy about the introduction of Ray Ramano’s character. Love him! I can’t really say I have a favorite. I love Sarah. It bothers me sometimes how Adam and Christina’s house gets so noisey when they all talk at once. That is the only complaint I have about the show. Love Love Love Parenthood! I love Christina and Adam! I guess it’s because I relate more to them than the others. I have cried the for every episode this year! Somehow this show just connects with the heart of the family. Also find Sarah’s boyfriend slightly annoying and very “little boyish”- dump him and move on. Ray Ramono has a surprisingly soft side. 🙂 I love Sarah, but I seriously need her to dump Mark- over it. I don’t think they’ll get married. Did you cry when Kristina told the fam about the cancer- I totally cried and I am NOT a cryer Even with that pic, I just cannot think Adam is cute. I like Joel and Julia!! Parenthood is one of the two shows I like that my husband does as well. I felt the same way on Tuesday when I turned the television on at the end of a long day and saw the debate, not my show. Sigh. I scoured Craigslist for some treasures instead. Headed over to Amy’s shop now. I love the HOME sign you have pictured and think it’s perfect for our new home that was a truly emotional long drawn-out process to purchase. Yes, we’re finally home. 🙂 I LOVE all the people on Parenthood! But that is one HOT picture of Adam!! I love Julia too. Probably because I am very much like her. I don’t know if I have a favorite on Parenthood because in some ways I can identify with every family. That’s what makes the show so amazing! When my kids are grown, I hope I’m Camille. She’s mellow, yet supportive, and fun. How u feel about the debate, I feel about the Olympics, especially the kids. EEEK! I can’t stand to watch, too much tension – I can hardly breathe, and so I don’t. It’s easy too, just turn the dang channel. Amy’s shop is the cutest, love your pillow. Howeva, craft budget is exhausted for October, but Amy, I’ll see you in November. Holla. I love Gilmore Girls! When I watch it It feels like Home:) Oh that’s so funny! I came in late from teaching yoga and I watched the end of the debate, then I went in to the bedroom and got cozy turned on my tv and dvr and was like the home alone kid screaming and shocked, Noooooooooooo! I was in denial and decided to watch last weeks episode too :D. Hmmmmm, who is my fav. I tend to have favorite couples. Right now I’m liking Ray and Sarah, That’s a hard question. p.s. did you watch him in six feet under? SUPER cute! hubba hubba! i love me some adam braverman!!! 🙂 I have such a crush on Adam Braverman. Love that he is such a family man. So sexy. Did you know he and Lauren Graham are together in real life? I love her character and Ray Ramano together. seeing that picture is definitely the first time i ever thought of adam as hot! he is just so uptight sometimes. maybe they’ll let him look like that on the show eventually! 🙂 hmm i think my favorite is crosby. i always favor the younger brothers, like justin on brothers and sisters My husband and I love watching Parenthood! We both agree that it’s one of the best shows EVER! My favorite character is Joel, Julia’s husband. He’s on my “Hot Dad/Hubby” Crush list!!!! oh well, i’ve never seen adam look quite so handsome….he sure looks different from they way he’s styled on the show!! this is much better! I just started watching it and am catching up on the other seasons, but my fave is Lauren Graham – Sarah. She was a single mom in another show I loved, Lorelai Gilmore on “Gilmore Girls, and she and I have been on similiar life paths (don’t know if that’s good or bad, although I’m not with my younger boyfriend any longer),so I always identified with her from the first show I saw her on The debate made my heart race too and come away saying America is better than this! I signed up for the class. I am so in Parenthood withdrawl. I CRY every single show. Every one! Love the whole show. I love Adam Braverman! Cute things! I was totally bummed that Parenthood wasn’t on too! I really love Christina and Adam! I was sad it wasn’t on last night too. I just started watching it this season and it has quickly become one of my very favorite shows! Amy’s etsy shop is adorable and like you said her prices are so reasonable. Hope you have a great night 🙂 I super missed Parenthood last night. Love that picture above of Mr. Braverman. I honestly think the cast is fabulous in general. I relate most with Christina (for pretty obvious reasons) and maybe think I’m just like her….shhh don’t tell. Counting down til next week….xo I’m signed up for the class too! You are right. The Debate WAS tense. I was YELLING at the TV for many reasons. My favorite is Josh (Julia’s husband) and Christina. This is going to be an intense season! Love love the show. I cry every episode! Amber is my favorite 😉 Zeke is probably my second favorite. Ooooh, I love it all… her shop is SO CUTE! craft weekend went well..fun group of ladies! i came home sunday afternoon from Craft Weekend and it was absolutely PERFECT outside.
i was happy to be back home with them. and the left over cheesecake. i pet a cow. (and later….i found cow poop in my hair. for reals. but i lived.)
these are AMAZING! such sweet memories and BEAUTIFUL pictures 🙂 i cannot handle these photos. LOVE. Yes, I know you told us this just recently, but I cannot find the post. Sorry… Hi Meg, I know you just told us this in a recent post, but what is the camera lens you use most of the time? I am looking into buying a new lens and I’m having a hard time deciding. I wish my girls got along as well as your do! 10 and 7…like yours? So sweet! Great weekend!! Fun seeing the girls in “3D”! 🙂 Megs, so sorry about the cow poop it’s a regular hair accessory around here. HA HA Thanks so much for coming out and bringing your troops. Loved seeing you and Kimberlee OMG number 7 – enough said. these photos of your girls are priceless! beautiful use of light and love! had a marriage retreat this weekend….wonderful getaway with just my man. Oh Meg – they are so beautiful! Great pictures. Um, and sorry about the poo. That is all. Now I miss our hopper. That’s what the Amish folk around here call them, Hoppers. (An Amish guy once patched our hopper top.) ha they are so adorable !!! but please put a safety net, pleasssee. makes me wish i had a sister 🙂 what a beautiful set of photos meg! Those photos are amazing! You are so talented! Thanks for sharing it with us! 🙂 Your pics of the girls remind me of me and my younger sister growing up. Besties.:) Your girls look so blissfully happy.love the pictures-love dee x The photos of your girls are precious. -tracy Stop! I can’t take it anymore! Annie is growing up FAR TOO FAST! And when did Talby’s hair get so long?! I must not have noticed because she probably had it pulled up all summer. What beautiful and loving children you have! …says a lot for their parents! Blessings to you & Craig! I love the shots of the girls Meg! They look like they’re kindred spirits, so happy and free. We biked tons this weekend as a family, and I just have to say that it made me so happy. The weather was gorgeous here as well and we made sure we got outside and enjoyed it. We purchased headlights for our bikes and biked to dinner and then biked around the neighborhood in the dark enjoying all the Halloween decorations. It was brisk, but so fun! Love, love, LOVE these photos Meg! Seeing all that beautiful sunshine made my heart so happy… and your girls! My goodness! They are getting so big and look so mature now… wow! These pics are framers for sure! Thank you for this little ray of sunshine on a cloudy day here in good ol’ Winnipeg. A very Happy Monday to you! : ) These pictures are stunning!!! The lighting and their smiles are awesome! Love the pictures of your girlies and the cow poop thing is why I don’t enjoy nature that much 😉 I see a little bit of you in each of your girls. Do either one of them look more like you when you were growing up? Your sweet girls are really growing up all of a sudden. Beautiful pictures. The pics remind me of my daughters. They are such good friends. I cannot get over how much Talby…or is the older one Annie? Anyway, the older of the two looks so grown-up now! Precious girls! I need to go get myself on that craft weekend list! this is why i read your blog – cows, beautiful pictures, cheesecake, family, gratitude. and the picture of them looking at each other, i die, it’s so sweet. Beautiful pics, Talby looks a bit retro with her jeans and sneaks, so fun! Had to post re: the cow poop- I just started doing night milking at a dairy barn (way up in Canada, woo!) and let me tell you I have had my fair share of poop in the hair, on my face, down my shirt, you get the picture… My kids say I stink and I actually smell up the whole room when I get home from work, LOL! I have to admit, this may be gross, but I actually kinda like the smell! Yikes!! Your girls are beautiful. They seem to really have fun together and enjoy one another. Beautiful pics too! i am pretty much in LOVE with these photos. seriously what a perfect combo of sisters and lighting! awesome! The girls are looking so much older! I had the most amazing weekend! My husband watched the kids so I could attend the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk! I’m a beginner at photography, but I had the most fun! I love how much they love each other and how much it shows! Precious! Glad you were able to have a nice relaxing evening with the family, not so much about the cow poop! Haha! How funny, I had to pull out my camers for some golden light trampoline photos of my kids this weekend, too! Annie is looking so grown up these days. Where does the time go? so . . . my friend and I (both from Nebraska) were in town this weekend for the festivities at the college. At 11:30 p.m. Saturday night as we were driving from our hotel to Druber’s for donuts we saw the Craft House all lit up. Seriously considered dropping in. Would that have been o.k.? Would that have freaked you out? Have you ever considered taking your craft girls to Druber’s in the middle of the night. Fresh deep fried and frosted at midnight . . . yummy! gorgeous girls. gorgeous photos. gorgeous light. happy monday, meg. Beautiful girls, awesome pictures – happy all around! Talby and Annie are getting so big! I’m glad you had such a wonderful craft and family weekend, Meg. I love that they are not too big in their britches (we stay weird things like that in the South) to be silly on the trampoline. Proof of good parents! Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Your photos fuel my DEEP DEEP desire for a 24-70. 🙂 some of these need to be on a canvas! BIG… like the one of annie and talby together… sisterly love, just the sweetest!
someone asked the question back on that question post…. "what is in your purse?" i was shopping yesterday and thought "dang this is so heavy…" now i know why. i think it's time to clean it out just a bit.
so… craft weekend is today. these are some of my instagrams from this week.
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and now i think the chickens are SO totally happening. 🙂
hope you have a wonderful friday. i am meg duerksen on instagram. and in real life too. 🙂
I made a pandora station today based on Mumford & Sons and I laughed out loud thinking of you when Phillip Phillips Home was the second song. http://www.pandora.com/stations/share/1091640507528120005 I would love to read “The Message”, but when I searched for it, there were tons of books by that title. Who wrote the book you are referring to? I would love to read “The Message”, but when I searched for it, there were tons of books by that title. Who wrote the book you are referring to? I thought that Old Navy return was a bag of DRIED BEANS at first. And I thought, For the Love of Pete, Lady! My gum is always all over my purse too 😉 looks like y’all are having fun!! Do you know what I like about you? You dont’ try to show everyone how cute and organized your purse is…..or you don’t lay it all out in order. You just keep it real. Thanks for that. I am not going to lie, I want my swag and every other month’s swag at craft weekend. I guess that means I should work for you…so i get one of each swag. Oh man, i wish I had some talent to bring to the CW team. I don’t. hope you’re switching sides when carrying your purse!!! how do you fit all of that in your purdy blue bag? I want to come to craft weekend just to absorb all the good, colorful vibes! And please know you ARE a blessing to so many! Have a wonderful time at CW! Courtney (and sally, below), she talked about it when they first moved. Look in the archives at the end of February and early March. I want those hoops and I want that print too. And I am trying to figure out how to wrap fabric around the outer loop??? I had and have the biggest crush on Phillip Phillips and you just reminded me of it! Got to go look up some Phil youtube now:) Have you ever had the Peanut Butter and Jelly M&Ms? They are AH-mazing. They are special limited edition…so anytime I see them on the shelf, I stock up. And then hide them so I don’t have to share. 🙂 We watch AI so we have definitely heard the song and love it. In fact, my son made me play it again today. I say “made me” because he loves it too much and played it so much I banned it for a while. (Then all he did was sing it, especially the ahh-ahh-ahh parts, so I lifted the ban. ;)) This is all beautiful, but I checked back today because I was curious as to whether you were going to answer as to why your family is living in the rental? I assume this was a business decision to keep your home set up for craft weekends? It is confusing to some who may have missed an explanation somewhere along the way. So wondering if you are going to explain what is going on with your house situation? No offense, but it is starting to seem odd that your family lives in a cramped rental with one bath while you reserve your beautiful home for down time and craft weekends. Are we missing something? I love your posts! Especially when they are filled with so much random goodness! That’s a lot of stuff in your purse lady! I was at a women’s tea last weekend and we were asked to decorate a hat with whatever was in our purses, lo and behold I had a toy gun in my purse! I was the envy of every table! Ha! On a different topic I’m so glad to see you run in what my hubby calls fashion sunglasses! He thinks I’m nuts for doing it 🙂 Hope its a lovely weekend! Looking forward to seeing all the crafty goodness on IG! I love so many things about you… but that purse? Oh my. I would die. Can I organize for you when I come for CW next month? 🙂 Ever just had one of those days. Sprinkling outside. Crying inside. PMS? Hormones? Feeling left out of a group outing? Just hearing the words CRAFT WEEKEND cheered me up! I am signing up soon. I swear!! -tracy Finally the inside of a handbag that looks like mine! Whenever people show the contents of their bags, its always so clean and streamlined. Love the flowers for the craft house. Do you make a double batch in your kitchen aid? I always do a 1 1/2 batch but have been afraid a double batch is too big?? I would love to make more cookies! I love all the color in this post from the awesome Hunter boots, to the craft wall and lastly to that amazing photo with the oodles of flowers and pumpkins. I love this time of year so much. The colors are so vibrant. Have a great craft weekend and enjoy the cheesecake. Feel proud of yourself that you ran in 30 degree weather! Just so you know, I wouldn’t be doing that! I’m a total wimp when it comes to cold weather. Love the Hunter boots! Have a GREAT weekend! What a fun, happy post! Love all of the color! Thinking Craft Weekend needs to go on my life list. Ever since I discovered Hunter boots I’ve wanted yellow pair! Love!! Why is it that Orbitz gum NEVER stays in it’s pack once you open it!!??!! That purse looks like mine! You are amazing, and I hope to come to craft weekend sometime!! I would love it. Oh man, I seriously laughed out loud when I saw what all was in your purse. 🙂 Isn’t it funny how much stuff we can cram into them? haha Also, that is a super happy backseat! 🙂 Hope you ladies all have a great weekend. … & the flowers … & gords … & yellow rubber boots too! Love your silly mood 🙂 Question for you: Is there some secret way to get Instagram photos to your blog? Right now I’m just manually saving them from Facebook or wherever I’m posting and then inserting to my blog. There must be a better way to do this! LOVE LOVE LOVE the hunter boots and happy flowers…..I hope you have an amazing weekend girl! xoxo That has to be the happiest backseat ever!! Love Home, the words just speak to me. It sounds crazy, but some songs do that. It also makes me think of my late husband, and the home we made together, and the one he is making for the day I get to see him again. I just love it. It is on repeat all the time. Have a great craft weekend! summer got SO hot that we quit going over to see the chickens.
i am still thinking about getting our own chickens. at least i have a few months to make some decisions. and we would need some good names of course. SIDE NOTE: i have very rarely even bought halloween costumes… what do you do?
This is totally changing the subject but over a year ago I learned about the musician Marcia Ball on this site. I am so excited that she is going to be performing this Saturday in Newton,KS. I wonder if Meg had anything to do with her coming to this area??? If so, Thank you!!! We’ve had a variety of chicken breeds over the years, and my favorite breed is the Barred Rock. They have black and white stripes and are very calm and will follow you around like a shadow, and easy to catch. They are good layers, too, nice brown eggs. Ameraucana’s have beautiful blue/green eggs, but are a bit more suspicious of people and other animals. A rooster is good to have if the chickens will free-range, but they will terrorize anything and everyone that enters their ‘zone of patrol’. Roosters have made for lots of funny memories for my girls, but they still tell the stories with a tremble in their voice! NEVER more than one rooster, just sayin’. Chickens do something for the soul, you should totally get some in the spring, but order from a hatchery or get from a mom and pop feed store, that will order for you. Can’t wait to hear the adventures! Oh if only you lived next door to me. Then your lil Annie could have all the fresh eggs her lil heart desired 🙂 Yay for chickens! You can get pullets at Tractor Supply Company in the spring (March and April) if you have one around there. That way you are sure to get chicks that are female…plus you can get just a few to start. The red sex link hens (which are actually orange-ish) are good layers that give those pretty brown eggs. Chickens are so easy, and my girls think they are the best pets;) I mix it up with costumes. Before I really used my sewing machine, I bought the costumes. Once I got the sewing bug, though, I have made all of them. Snow White and a Dwarf, Butterfly, etc. This year, my son wants to be Iron Man and we will buy it. My daughter will be a peacock and I am making it. She said, “Mom, I want YOU to make it, because you make the BEST clothes!”. I have about 5 seconds of that attitude left and I am going to soak it all up. ( : I love making the costumes, but am not going to stress over it. It isn’t worth it for one hour, half of which is dark. My sil and I were just talking about the costume thing. I really thought I would be a make the costumes get all creative kind of mom. I loved to help make my Halloween costumes growing up and my mom kindly obliged. I wanted to be all sorts of unique things like an African princess, etc. We would just use things we had on hand, borrow things from my grandma, sometimes buy a thing or two and just make the costumes up. We have had chickens for the past 5 years and we LOVE them. McMurray Hatchery is the best. You can go to their website, pick out your baby chicks, and pick a date that you want them sent to you and go to the post office and pick them up. (We buy mostly all girls because roosters can get mean). One breed we love are the Ameraucana’s. They lay big blue eggs!!!!! This year will be my first year making a costume. I am making my 4 year a raccoon costume because I couldn’t find a kid’s grey raccoon costume! 🙂 So this year my 4 year old will be wearing a homemade costume, my 9 year old will be wearing one he already had (his choice) and my 2 year old will be wearing a new bought costume (which I bought online). we live in Memphis TN… right in the heart of the city and we have 3 chickens… all of them are the Buff Orpington’s… the “easy” to catch ones ;)…we got them in June as matureish chicks… and they laid their first eggs in August..the VERY LAST day of AUgust. It was the longest 2 months that we had to wait to get eggs…however we used that time to really get to know our pets… Henrietta, Cackle & Yolkie…. They are very tame and come to us to eat out of our hands… they are even comfortable around our 3 dogs. I think that you will be most pleased with chickens as pets… and in return they will give you the BEST eggs you have ever had. ;} Also… we built our coop using left over wood from the home depot & lowes stores SPRING GARDEN shipments… used pallets and stuff like that… got OOPS paint and created our pallet from there. We love our chickens… and if you are ever in town… please stop by. 🙂 It varies from year to year here. Some years I make them. Some years I buy at full price. Some years I find them second hand. And I’m okay with that. I made a lot of the girls costumes when they were small – using a Wal-mart cheapy sweat pants/shirt as a base (don’t think I sewed princess dresses or anything because I can’t even hem straight). As they got older they built their own – the middle one was “Flo” from the Progressive commercials last year and that was all white clothes (Goodwill) and her hair done the same as Flo, bright red lipstick. I LOVE those kinds of costumes. I actually made costumes for my oldest two for a couple of years and since then we always bought costumes. Of course my youngest reminds me that I never made her a costume…ouch! No more costumes now though cuz they are older. I’m excited for your chicken adventure! I bet you’ll love it. I always loved harvesting the eggs from my parents’ chickens as a kid. Now it’s fun getting my kids involved when we visit Grandma and Papa’s place. For Halloween this year my kids are going as the princess and the frog. My 4 year old daughter’s idea… She has plenty of princess stuff, so no purchases needed there. I’m just mixing green clothing for my boy, and will be making him a green hat with eyes on top. That’s this weekend’s project! My niece used to have a chicken named Percy. I have always LOVED that name for a chicken!! lol So funny. Sure… I let my kids pick who they want to be… THE YEAR BEFORE ON MAJOR CLEARANCE! Seriously.. go there two weeks after halloween and say … whatever you would like. They have never seemed to mind! I buy my girls costumes every year because they play with them until they don’t fit and the older girl’s costume is happily accepted (for now) as a hand-me-down to our younger girl. We don’t always buy the pre-packaged costumes, though. We have a great church thrift store nearby to sift through for inspiration and, sometimes, we are even able to pull something together from what we’ve already got. It’s our yearly indulgence, along with Christmas dresses. 🙂 THRIFT STORE EVERYBODY!!!! i just discovered that our neighbour has chickens! i couldn’t figure out what the noise was and he other day i went peeking through the hedge and saw them!! i was hearing the clucking. i would love to get chickens but i am terribly nervous around birds so i don’t know if it would work. Whatever works is right, my daughter is 4 this year and I asked her what she wanted to be, this was our conversation: Oh! We moved to this subdivision and they said we couldn’t keep chickens. I am thinking about doing it anyway. 😛 My kids and I want them so bad! They like Buff Orpingtons and I like Copper Marans. Beautiful eggs! check out http://www.mypetchicken.com a couple of my friends have chickens and they live in town..total golf course subdivision in the front, chicken coop in the back lol. One of them has a hen that lays the prettiest pale blue-green eggs (they’re my fav ;)) I know that one of them got their chicks from 4H kids too. I use to buy new costumes but once we added child 3 and 4 it got too expensive. Now I buy clearance after Halloween or they have to figure out a costume from what we have. We go to goodwill sometimes too. And if they need an accessory for 5$ or less I might help with that. My 11yr old spent her own money to buy what she wanted for this year! Every years been a little different. 🙂 The colors of that chicken against Talby’s coat…my favorite combo! Great photos. My kids are wearing costumes I picked up at garage sales over the summer. Thankfully they were both thrilled with the things I brought home. I doubt it will work that way too much longer! Miz Booshay has a picture on her blog today that you would really love. I thought of you immediately when I saw it. It’s the very first one. http://booshay.blogspot.com/2012/10/nest.html Meg I have made costumes & bought them. Last year I made my 2 older kids’ costumes. The 3 went as Alice in Wonderland, The Mad Hatter & the baby was the White Rabbit. I made the Alice costume, for my son I made the pants, found a jacket at a thrift shop, the hat & wig at a Halloween store & decorated with a scarf I made & made the big bow tie. For the baby I bought the rabbit ears but then bought a pink tutu & pink & white striped shirt at Target, easy peasy. I have pics on my old blog: http://meandmyscraps.blogspot.com/2011/11/halloween-in-new-town.html always homemade costumes….actually two days ago on msn.com they featured over 30 photos of costume ideas and a photo from my blog of our son as a penny was #4! freaky. A friend of mine has chickens and she named them all after the Desperate Housewives! So funny. Bree, Lynette, etc. :o) Love the cooler fall weather! I read a blog post recently that made me want to never have chickens. It had to do with a hen coop and a murderous raccoon. Yuck. Anyway… I always buy Halloween costumes at Walmart. It’s just too easy. And I kinda feel about Halloween the way you feel about Valentine’s Day. So, yeah. Easy is good. 🙂 yum, fresh farm eggs! we are an egg free family now as my eldest is allergic, but i do love a good chicken n’ egg picture! This is my son’s eighth trick or treat and I have purchased every one of his costumes. Every year (aside from the first two or three) he has know exactly what he wants to be months ahead of time (lion, fireman, Navy Seal, Yoda…). And although a more creative, sewing-kinda mom would make the costumes herself, I choose to purchase. Otherwise, my child would go trick or treating in what he had on for school that day 🙂 Your photos of the chickens are awesome! I love how kids just blurt things out. They speak with their hearts and not always their minds, but I love it. We should remember as adults to do that more often, you never know what it could bring. My brother in-law is raising chickens and he lives in MN. He is so into it and he installed this tree branch for them to hang out on, I guess chickens love hanging on branches, go figure. Anyway the eggs that they produced, were the best eggs I have ever eaten. I would love to raise some chickens, but we don’t have a big enough yard. If you decide to get them my offer to build you a coop is still on the table. I’m serious. My route to visit my brother and sister-in-law goes right past Marion. I can’t even imagine the fun you’d have with chickens!!! So exciting! Yes – You have to what works! That’s the rules. Hi Meg, I am lucky that my mom has made a lot of my kids costumes. My favorites that she has made so far are: Jessie from Toy Story, Scarecrow and Dorothy, and Tin Man. I’m with you on the costumes. I usually create something from scratch. Or I will buy costumes at resale and Goodwill stores. That’s how we found Cinderella last year. This year I told my daughter she can only wear one of the many dress-up outfits she has at home. And believe me, there is no shortage! I hate to buy costumes! It seems like such a waste of money. I give my kids $5 and take them to the Dollar Tree. They buy what they need and can come up with some pretty awesome ideas. One year Tyler bought a bunch of gauze and went as a wreck. He used face paint to paint bruises on his face and a little blood coming from his mouth. I love to let my kids get creative! I made costumes with the first three kids… always. And then number four came along. Thrift stores became my go to Halloween costume place. Two years ago, I caved and bought the expensive costumes from the catalog costume for youngest child… I have been defeated now 🙂 This year the youngest (girl) wants to go as a Smore… planning to make a costume again with a large brown cardboard box and pillows. Hah! This should be interesting… don’t stress or feel like you’ve caved…it’s no biggie. This is the first year I’ve ever bought a costume. I only bought for my youngest (2) because he wanted to be a power ranger and I didn’t have the energy to try and make that, so I got it at K-Mart. It was painfully expensive. My older two (6 and 11) are piecing together costumes from stuff we already own. We usually get new babies in spring. Rhode Island Reds are great hens, and I love Araucanas with their blue eggs. First…LOVE those chickens!! I made Tate’s costume this year, she’s going to be a peacock and even I was slightly impressed with myself. It turned out much better than this non-sewing, only slightly crafty Mama thought. Finn wants to be Hulk and has ZERO interest in me making something for him, so we’ll buy that one. I can’t believe I forgot Jacket Man, which I jokingly suggested the year my son couldn’t think what he wanted to be, and he went for it! I would love to have chickens, but live in a suburb and they don’t allow it. We spend a ton of time discussing, planning & making costumes here, with the occasional store-bought one thrown in as time requires! I’ve had a firefighter, a pig, Bob the builder and Thomas the train, an awesome robot that my husband stayed up nearly all night making, Perry & Doofenschmirtz, a dog-cyborg (I don’t get it either, and I made th costume!), and a lego guy. This year Halloween is even more of a pain. My daughter whined that she really, really wanted to be a zombie bride, then we go to the thift sore to “make” the costume before October 1st (way too early), now she whines some more that maybe she doesn’t want to be that anymore! Ugh. I will not buy another costume! {repeat} I put a $20 limit on costumes. Thankfully my 6 year old was super easy this year. But the 10 year old is killing with the whining to go to a big name Halloween store with over priced costumes. I would get chickens stat!… if I lived in the country 🙂 I vary from year to year. Last year I created and this year I purchased. I just have to do what my schedule allows and this year I just didn’t have time to get anything created. yes do get chickens 🙂 so we can vicariously have chickens too! When our girls will little, we made costumes, usually out of sweats, felt, and yarn. Now they are 16, 13, and 10. Five years ago we got invited to a huge Halloween bash, given by some clients who are now friends (and they’ve spent a LOT of money with us). We feel a little obligated to do up the costumes in a big way, since they’ve done so much for us. It’s always a family theme. Two years we were a wild west saloon scene. This year we are all going to be pirates. But the best year was when we ALL went as witches (hubby included). He was an extremely disturbing female witch, and everyone loved it! Not usually a fan of Halloween, but this makes it fun for us. I think I’d have a hard time saying no to Annie, too. We buy our girls’ costumes. I’d like to make them, but all the ones I suggest they don’t like. Princess Leia came from Target this year (I knew that’s what my 8-year-old wanted to be so I bought it on my own one wonderful day while I was at Target by myself), and I bought my 5-year-old daughter’s pirate costume online from Kohl’s. I love both of them. My daughters and the costumes. Their costumes are so stinkin’ cute this year. I would totally have chickens if we could. We live in a neighborhood where everyone has a little land (like 3+ acres), but the rules state NO LIVESTOCK! Pooey! My Kids begin to harass me for Halloween costumes about 1 month after Halloween LOL. I love it, I hate it… No full covering masks this year though, last year my son insisted on a morph suit. He fell into a ditch, don’t worry he was okay just a scratch and rip in the knee. I’ve promised a trip to party city this weekend. Why do I do these things and make these promises. Ugh. 🙂 Oh do get chickens!!! We only got six and one rooster and we just love them. They are so fun to watch and the kids ge so excited each day to get the eggs!! Soooo much fun!!!
i took most of these within the mile of my my house….down the road and in the yard. fall in kansas is so pretty. ha ha ha i like adding the extra blanket on the bed….wearing more layers…crisp nights. my favorite time of year in kansas is the fall. do you like Fall where you live?
beautiful shots! Okay, it’s official, I’m moving to Kansas! What gorgeous pictures! Beautiful photos! I always take pictures of flowers/grass/leaves/stumps…what do I do with them? Make my husband look at them and make him say, “Those are nice, honey!” Around here “hedge apples” are called…. Monkey Balls– we used to throw them at each other during recess. When my husband’s 8th grade class had a 30th year reunion, one of the girls made centerpieces out of the Monkey Balls. I’m in Montana. It DID look so pretty and then it snowed and everything froze and turned black 🙁 Thank you for the beautiful Kansas pictures! I used to live in Buhler, now in Wisconsin. Fond memories-I loved it there! Our fall in WI is beautiful as well. It must be hard to move from such a personalized home to a place you call home. I have lived in rentals my whole life save the house we currently live in which is our first owned space, but I never thought I’d be able to own anything, so I made every space I lived in my “own” space. That must be difficult after spending so much time on the craft house. Hey, as long as it’s safe and fun and you enjoy being there, who cares if it’s not decorated the way you’d like. A home is where you make memories. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I know the weather has been wonderful here lately. The trees look so pretty. I love using our fire pit this time of year. But it is Kansas, we could have either 90’s or snow in a few days. You could make all your Christmas spending money but putting these in your Etsy shop I bet 🙂 I wish I could photograph like this. . .just beautiful. beautiful photos as always! Where we live, Fall looks like….well…summer. (Hilton Head Is., SC) And while it’s still very beautiful here, it’s not very Fallish! I grew up experiencing the beautiful Falls of North Carolina. Meg- I’ve always been a fan of your photos but these are by far my favorite!! You’re making this city girl long for afternoon hikes in the country… crispy crunch leaves underfoot, thermos of tea, scarves…. love it! I’m starting to love fall seeing those amazing pictures. Actually, I live in a tropical country and we don’t have fall. I envy you guys. I miss Kansas. I LOVE it and it looks a lot like that. Then again I only live an hour or two away. 🙂 Kansas is my favorite place and fall is my favorite season. Very happy. Now, if only I had a pumpkin spice latte I’d be set. Fall is my all time fave & I’m convinced Heaven’s atmosphere & climate is Fall-like all year long! Thanks for sharing! Really it’s my least favorite season….here in Seattle, it means it’s going to start raining and keep raining for the next 6 months. But. Ive tried to embrace it more the last few years. It is really pretty when the leaves change. And I do like the extra quilt on the bed. And cooking in the slow cooker. And it means Christmas is coming. See? I’m trying….. Hi Meg we call them osage oranges here in central PA. Pics are so pretty! We will have full color in about two weeks here and it is not as flat but the colors look similar. oh my, that red barn, I die!! fall is my faves too! I do love fall where I live ( 30 miles north of LA). It’s usually still hot in September but about now it starts to turn cooler in the morning and evening. I wore a sweatshirt, with my shorts and flip flops, but I was able to where the sweatshirt. I am making soup for dinner tomorrow night and I did put, not an extra blanket, but a blanket on our bed! It looks very pretty where you are. happy Fall! Fall is my favorite too. Hannah calls hedge balls, hedge hogs! Ha ha!! MN = lovely lovely LOVELY for about a week and then poof they’re gone. My favorite is Spring. It means our cold nasty winters are over! 😉 My husband (from Mexico) ‘s favorite season… Winter. Craaazy man, I tell ya. Crazy! We call them hedge apples here in Indiana, too! And in case you didn’t know, if you put a hedge apple in each room of your house, it keeps the spiders away! I swear by it! 🙂 love, love, love your blog! Fall in MN is bea-u-tiful! Although I’m a lil sad looking at your photos because leaves are just turning for you, and I fear they will be almost gone for us soon. End of fall means start of our long nasty winter… and I’m not such a fan of that. Especially the yucky driving in the snow part. 🙁 I did get some beautiful family pictures in our fall colors, right on our country driveway though! Fall is my favorite too! Unfortunately, here in Texas we don’t get falls like you do in Kansas :(. So pretty! I use to live in southern CA where fall was hot and not my favorite. Now I live in the high desert of Oregon and love fall! I dont live where all the rain is so its not quite as beautiful with all the colors but the weather is crisp and cool and the colors do start changing! I love having actual seasons. I love fall and spring. I just adore those “change” seasons. And everything is so pretty at both those times. Here in Texas summer and winter are not typically pretty. During both times things are generally dead. My other favorite thing about both fall and spring is the monarchs. They fly thru here and whenever I see them I know that the seasons are truly changing. Beautiful pictures! Fall is definitely my favorite season! We have the most brilliant coloured trees up here in Ontario. Neon oranges and reds! I always like to see what a place looks like through the changes of the seasons, somewhere else in the world! I live in the Virgin Islands so my fall looks NOTHING like that. But I grew up in Indiana so I LOVE looking at these photos – thanks!! I miss fall…I’m currently sitting outside at 8pm where a tropical shower just passed and I’m sweating! We were just looking around for out extra blankets! so true! 🙂 Houston doesn’t really have fall. 🙁 We had fallish weather for 2 days this week, but today is was back up to an 87 degree high. boo! My 4 year old asked me a month ago if she could jump in a pile of leaves in the fall. My answer was, if I can find a pile of leaves for you, we’ll jump in it! 😉 I love your pictures, though. Those are called Mock Oranges here in the South. I love fall but I am a southern California girl and we have not had fall weather, temps have been in the 90s…too hot for fall, I haven’t even wanted to decorate for fall because it still feels like summer… Your pictures of fall are beautiful! We don’t have much fall here in Texas! It goes from hot to not so hot to freezing usually in the course of one week:) Most of the foliage around here goes from green straight to brown in the same amount of time! fall has always been my favorite season here in ks…i’m on the east edge of the flint hills and it’s beautiful!!! i love that you took a pic of the hedge apples…my brothers and i used to have hedge apple wars! they hurt and are sticky! 😉 fall out east is soooo much prettier. you don’t even realize until you are back and get to experience it again…but, Kansas ain’t so bad! In Texas we call those horse apples… Not sure why 🙂 yesssss I love fall here too, though it comes a bit later in the north Texas area I miss fall in Kansas. We were stationed at Ft. Riley for a couple years. Now we live right out side of New Orleans. Just hot here. Our trees don’t turn till Dec. or Jan. Love the pictures thanks for sharing. How awesome is that barn! I would love to have family pictures done there. how beautiful! love all these images. I love the picture of the barn! Would you please put it in your etsy shop? I have grown up in Kansas and we are now moving to Savannah, GA and would love to hang that in my new house! I grew up in Hesston and live in the DC area now. Your pics make me feel a little verklempt. My best friend lived about 6 miles west on Dutch Ave and those hedge apples were everywhere! Love checking in with you and seeing my old town. Found you on a fluke! Thanks for being so inspiring. Looks beautiful! Makes me want to wander around the area with my camera and capture fall shots here in NJ….but it’s been raining a lot. Hedge apples? HORSE apples! 🙂 Funny how things like that are regional! Gorgeous photos. This is my favorite time of year! these are stunning, meg. Oh how I miss fall. Your pictures are gorgeous. I lived around the Fort Riley area when I was a kid and loved it. I loved the big blue sky, the waves of endless grass, the snow, even tornado season. Lol. I now live in FL and before that I lived in Las Vegas. There is no color to be seen and frankly it makes me grumpy. We are still battling upper 80s and even 90 degrees. I do have to praise God for cooler, enjoyable mornings. I’m in Kansas, too, and LOVE fall!!! Buuuuttt, winter, not so much. after ten years in Los Angeles, I can not Praise God enough for the glorious season of fall in Connecticut! I would love to buy a print of the red barn photo! Put it in the shop, pretty please!!! Yes, my favorite by far! I’m in North Carolina. Wow, Meg! That picture of the red barn is gorgeous! I couldn’t stop staring at it! I wish I had it in a frame! Anyway, fall in Indiana is very similar. It’s my favorite season as well. I find that as each season comes and goes, I’m ready for it. It reminds that God has really awesome timing. 🙂 Fall in North Carolina is P E R F E C T. i feel (a lil) bad because the comments are all lovin on fall. im in pa and i dont want it. florida, please? longer days, where art thou? oh sweet summer i miss thee. i really like the 3rd photo of the pink buds, i will take those. fall is pretty, i’ll give you that. I’m finding it interesting to read through your comments and see where people are from. You seem to have a lot of readers from my neck of the woods: southwest Ohio. Maybe a day where we all post where we live??? City and state??? Your blog inspired me to start taking and sharing more big photos (instead of just small/artwork related ones)… I just posted this big photo post about camping during fall in New England… in case you’d like to see A LOT of different colors on a lot of trees 🙂 http://maechevrette.com/blog/2012/10/9/camp-things LOVE fall. Ohio falls are beautiful, too, but that Kansas sky…that’s something different. It’s awesome. Bright blue skies, vibrant leaves, crisp air here in OH today. Love my job working for a park district. I’m out in God’s beauty all the time. I love Fall but it is not even close to as gorgeous as it is where you are! I love all these pics Meg, thank you for sharing with us. Oh and I would prob. cry if I was sitting in the rain cold too 😉 I’m in southwest Ohio and it looks and feels a lot like your Kansas. Love fall!! (I also love spring and summer!!) Oh, I just love fall! here in nashville i’ve always called those “hedge apples” monkey brains! haha. a little bit gross. it has been cold here, but not very pretty yet. i can’t wait for the leaves to really start turning Beautiful pictures, Meg! beautiful photos!! I love all of the colors. We just moved to a new town in California, and I don’t think it’s really fall yet. After living in Seattle during Fall I can say with full confidence what fall looks like there…but I think it has yet to hit our little town of Gilroy 🙂 BUT, we now live in the country which is totally new to me, so I may have to go on a walk close to home and see if I can capture anything fun like you have! fall is my first love. I love fall in Kansas. The colors are a feast for the eyes. These are great pictures way to capture fall. Another KS girl here – NE corner, though. Fall is really pretty up here because the land is somewhat hilly and the trees spot the landscape nicely. My fave season, though, will always be spring – it’s the promise that God will never forsake us – new life has come again! Our fall in southern Ohio looks and sounds a lot like yours in Kansas. Love it! I absolutely LOVE the photos Meg! Perfect examples of fall. So jealous that these are all so close to home… makes me want to take a little road trip and take some pictures of my own! I wish I could say it looked like fall here… it did, for about a week. Then, typical Winnipeg (there is a reason we are nicknamed WINTERpeg) it SNOWED! Now it has been snowing on and off for a week! I was really hoping for a Halloween where we DIDN’T have to account for wearing a parka when buying a costume but, oh well! That’s life on the Canadian Prairies for you! Hope you have a most wonderful day! We call those Bodocks. We even have a Bodock Festival every year. It’s pretty fun seeing what people can use the Bodock balls for. Love fall! The colors have been amazing here in Iowa. Love all the photos, especially the red barn; I’m a sucker for old barns!! Fall is my favorite in OH. Love the colors. Hedge apples help with fruit flies. I love sweatshirt and jeans weather. It is snowing in my fall today! I love all seasons…not sure that I really have a favorite. Beautiful photos – truly. I love Fall too!! I so wish I didn’t have to spend all day in an office so I could go out and enjoy the beauty. it’s beautiful and would be a lovely way to transition to the holidays. I just moved to Marshall MN from South Dakota and fall is the same here as SD. Fall colors here were absolutely beautiful for a couple weeks,then the wind was so bad all the leaves fell off. I can’t believe how windy it has been here over the last week and I really could do without it! If it weren’t for the wind it would actually be quite nice out—sweatshirt weather, my favorite:) Love all your pictures, especially the red barn and the multiple wires on the fencepost:) I live in Indiana & LOVE fall as well. I feel sorry for those that don’t get to experience it the same as we do! Absolutely beautiful to see such a change in seasons! Love your pics by the way, especially the barn! I love fall. It’s my favorite season. I live up in the very NW corner of Washington. It’s so beautiful here. Beautiful red maples OH I LOVE IT!!! I live in Central California and we don’t have a nice fall. Its still in the 80s in October and doesn’t get nice and chilly until December, sometimes January. I grew up in Upstate NY so I grew up with amazing falls. I didn’t realize how much I would miss them until I moved here. Now I get so homesick every fall. I love fall and all the beautiful colors I just do not like what comes after fall:) Lovely pictures!!! so lovely. i wish for fall. we live in the sf bay area…cooler weather and fog…not too many turning leaves. i miss a real fall like in the rockies. |
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Kimber-Leigh - i think the ruffle apron group picture is my favorite to see from each CW. so bright and cheerful and happy.
Jess Mead - I never get tired of seeing those adorable aprons! Lovely!! 🙂
Karen Gerstenberger - Adorable! Each one looks so cute in her apron! That was an inspired idea – everyone can use an apron.
andrea - Love seeing all of the smiling faces. Needed to see some of those today. Also, loved all of your leaf pics on the previous post.
Kate - Oh, look at all that color! Love, love, love those aprons! And do I see Jess? Hi Jess!!!
Charla - My sweet friend Rachel was there! LUCKY girl! Now she’s in the hospital…please keep her in your prayers. I’m sure Kimberlee has already filled you in.
Jaime - I love this picture…and I loved meeting each one of these special girls even more!
happygirl - Wow, this looks like so much fun. Who da thought vertical stripes on a ruffled apron could be so slimming. 🙂
Abby - Don’t forget to rest!!! 🙂
Jocelyn Pascall - Uhm…how cute is that picture??!?! I LOVE all of the color. Have a good day!
kim - my fav thing about these CW posts is seeing the change in seasons at the barn and what the ladies wear. 🙂
I remember it being so crisp out there – and in the summer it alway struck me funny to see short sleeves and shorts. 😉
looks like fall has arrived in kansas now 🙂
Shara - Can’t wait to hear more about each of the ladies!!! Hope your to-do list gets done!!!