That Big Tree on the Corner

That big tree on the corner's leaves are still mostly green, and it's holding onto them. You can see the difference from the last time I took a picture down the street. Most of the trees are bare branches except for a few yellow ones way down the block, the big tree on the corner, and my little Pacific Sunset maple.

 

Here's my maple tree. A few of the leaves on the ends of the branches are turning a deep orange-ish red. I don't think any of them have fallen off yet. The lawn mowers came this morning and mowed and de-leafed the lawn. The kid that's too young to ride the mower went around first to blow all of the leaves close to the house out onto the grass so the mower could pick them up. It looks so nice when they're done.

 

Here's today's squirrel on the suet nuggets feeder. It's a popular spot for squirrels and I can tell that they're really fattening up for winter. They're not wasting any time eating all the kernels off the cob corn and out of the horse head feeder, either.

 

As soon as another squirrel hopped down off the round birdseed feeder, this Sparrow flew over and started pecking away at the feeder port. There had been two Sparrows but as soon as I picked up the camera one flew off. Camera shy, I guess.

 

Yesterday's gratitude journal page was an easy one. I wrote over 1,700 words. Well, one over but still over. I took a walk while I waited in the afternoon pickup line and I got to see LC and OJ for a few minutes. Always good times.

 

The drawing today is Honeysuckle. I miss my honeysuckle bush. Dad brought it from his mom's farm decades ago and it finally gave up the ghost two or three years ago. I keep thinking I'd like to plant another one but that would mean digging out the stump of the old one and I don't know if I'm up to it.

 

This is the other Christmas cactus flower that's just about in full bloom. Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the many buds on the other side of the plant.

 

Knitting on the Alpaca Sophie scarf on Wednesday evening and tonight got me to the middle so now it's time to start decreasing. It'll go just as slowly as increasing because the pattern tells me to decrease one stitch every eighth row.

 

Writing went well today. I wrote 1,951 words which is where I stopped. It was the end of a sentence and it's also the year I was born so I thought it was a good stopping spot. I might actually be getting the hang of this writing thing.

--Barbara