Harbinger Of Winter

I looked out this morning and saw a single Dark-Eyed Junco pecking at the fallen seeds.  Yikes!  This is a bird that comes down from the Arctic to winter here.  Then this afternoon there was a whole flock of them under the feeders.  They're cute little birds but I'm not happy to see them because that means that winter is on the way, tout suite.  Arrgh.

I noticed that the sedum on the far side of the retaining wall is much darker than the sedum on my side.  It's a kind of bronze-y burgundy.  Pretty.

 

And here's the daily Stella d'Oro.  It was cool enough this morning that I turned on the furnace so it won't be too long before all of the flowers will be done for the season so I need to appreciate them while they last.

The drawing lesson today was to draw a little house.  I'm happy with parts of it but didn't feel especially inspired by it.  The mailbox is a little better I think.

 

 

Tonight at Friday Night Knitting I finished the body of the bib, one of the ties, and got almost done with the second tie.  I'm counting it done because there's only about 2 inches of tie left to knit and the tails to weave in.  I was surprised at the way the yarn color pooled in the middle section of the body of the bib and how the ties are coming out almost identical.  I didn't plan that.

Today's toss was a paperback, coffee table book of maps.

The prompt today was to write about forbidden love.  I got started writing about a teenager who fell in love with a college student in the neighborhood.  She even made friends with his dog to get closer to him but then I realized that I was writing about unrequited love instead and stopped.

The sun shone for part of the day and it drizzled for part of the day too.  I have high hopes that tomorrow it'll be mostly sunny and I can finally get out and mow the lawn.  The grass is getting so long that pretty soon I'll have to use a baler.

--Barbara