Fall Note Cards

It's Time for the October Notecard Party at Vee's.

These 1st two photos were taken last Fall at Shetek State Park not far from home.

The next two were taken this fall near Mille Lacs Lake in Central MN

I have shared the first three with you before.  But the last one is a new photo that I have not shared until now.

Please stop over at Vee's to see all the gorgeous note cards shared there.

Thanks for stopping and all your nice comments on my previous post

See you next time.

Barb

The Golden Hour

I took the photo of this barn with the evening golden hour sun shining on the trees.  This is SOC.

Linking to Madge's Weekly Top Shot #104

Thanks for stopping.  I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian Friends.

Barb

You can see the last two posts of  Bachman's Fall Idea House here at Linda's Itsy Bits and Pieces.

Random 5 Friday

Just a few random facts and photos from the past week.

1.  Tuesday night I heard that there were supposed to be some great Northern Lights.  So I drove out of town to a dark country road.  I waited and watched until almost 1 o'clock and never saw a thing except a couple of airplanes and the revolving light at the airport.  My grandson in Duluth however saw the Northern Lights and sent me a picture with permission to share it with you.  Thanks Nicholas!

2.  I haven't seen any butterflies all summer, but two have been hanging around the humming bird feeder the last few days.  I was going to take down the feeder as it was attracting lots of flies and wasps but when the butterflies started drinking out of it, I left it for them to enjoy.  I'm not familiar with the names of these two.

3.  I finished my last watercolor class.  We worked on 4 paintings but I haven't finished any of them.  This  calla lily is the closest to being finished and is the one I like best.

4.  I have been baking apples in the microwave.  So fast and easy.  Just core the apple, place in a microwave safe dish, add brown sugar and a little butter in the hole,  add a little water to the dish, cover and bake 4 minutes.  I like to eat mine with cream.

5.  One day last week my dishwasher quite right in the middle of the cycle, leaving a couple of inches of water in the bottom. I had to bail it out as it started to smell before the repair man could get here.  He came today and discovered it was a burned wire so no electricity was getting to it.  I was so glad to hear that's all that was wrong so it was easy and inexpensive to fix.

Linking to Random 5 Friday over at Nancy's A Rural Journal

Thanks for stopping and have a great weekend!

See you next time

Barb

It wouldn't be Monday without a picture of a barn.  This barn is located near Mille Lacs Lake in central Minnesota north of the Twin Cities.

I had taken my friend, Eugene, to see his grandson play football in Onamia on Friday evening.  Then we planned to go on to Duluth on Saturday to see the fall colors on the North Shore of Lake Superior.  The trip didn't go quite as planned.  The weather in Duluth was miserable...rain, fog, wind, and cold.  So we called our grandkids that are attending college at the U of M Duluth and had them meet us at Grandma's Restaurant down by the lake.  We spent a nice couple of hours with them visiting and having lunch .  Since you could barely see the lake we decided to return to Onamia.  We did see some pretty colors near Onamia and Mille Lacs Lake though.  So it turned out to be a nice weekend in spite of the weather.

Here are a few of the colors we saw.

Since I was gone over the weekend, I didn't get around to visit all of you.  Am trying to get caught up today.

I hope you all had a great weekend and will have a wonderful week ahead.  Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you next time.

Barb

P.S.  Here is the link to the next installment of Linda's Itsy Bits and Pieces pictures of the Bachman House.

Linking to Tuesday Muse at Nancy's A Rural Journal

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Our World Tuesday

A Bit of Randomness

Friday is the day over at Nancy's for Random 5 Friday, where you can add 5 random facts about you, your day, your kids, your pets, or whatever.

Last Saturday my daughter, her boy friend and my grandson came to help get a few chores done around here.  Here are the 5 biggest ones accomplished..

1.  New storm door on my kitchen door.

2.  Replaced the rotting wood around the garage door with vinal.

3.  Added window well covers to the basement windows.

4.  Put away my lawn furniture.

5.  Cleaned out the gutters.

A few other things  got done but those were the things I really wanted to get done before  winter.

Linking to Random 5 Friday

Earlier I told you I had been to the Bachman Idea House in Minneapolis and promised to show pictures.  Well I have not gotten around to editing them but you can see Linda's pictures over at Itsy Bits and Pieces.
There is so much to see there and Linda always manages to see things that I don't.

Thanks for stopping.  Have a great weekend!

See you next time.

Barb

One Last Barn...

for Tricia's Barn Charm.  It was when I found Barn Charm that my blog really started to take off.  I hadn't really figured out my real love of blogging until then.  Now Barn Charm is coming to an end so here is one last barn photo for that meme.  Don't believe for a minute though that I will quite posting barns on my blog!

Here's to you Tricia.  Thanks so much for hosting this meme for the last 3 years. I only wish I had found you  when you first started it.  Sad to see it go.

Linking to Tricia's Barn Charm

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week and a wonderful October!

See you next time!

Barb

September

I first heard the poem "September" by Helen Hunt Jackson when I was in first grade.  I love these first 4 lines and they are the only ones I remember.

The golden-rod is yellow

The corn is turning brown

The trees in apple orchards

with fruit are bending down

 By all these lovely tokens 
 September days are here,
       With summer's best of weather,

 And autumn's best of cheer.

September my favorite month and it's almost gone

 You can read the whole poem here

Leaving you with a sunset on the prairie.

Linking to Madge's Rurality Blog Hop #33

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Skywatch Friday

Thanks for stopping  by.  Have a wonderful day and I'll see you next time.

Barb

Barn Charm and a Rainbow

I showed you a picture of the rainbow the other day.  Here are a couple more.  On one side of the road the cows were grazing in the field.

On the other side of the road is a barn.  You can't see the double rain bow in these photos.  But, can you see the wind tower over the shed in the right hand of the photo? There were several along there.  I just didn't get them in the picture.

Linking to Barn Charm 154 at Bluff Area Daily

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful week.

See you next time

Barb