Fall beauty

Just thought i'd share a few shots from last week while driving to my parents i was struck by the beauty of the sky and the contrast with the treeline. Since i love trees and skies, it was an irresistible combination just begging to be watched... so my camera and I watched in rapt attention as the Creator painted the skies with colours too beautiful to be seen in a picture and marvelled at His creation power and majesty. Also beautiful was the same scene captured in black and white to show contrasts and shapes - Great are you Lord!

Applesauce

Okay, so it's fall... and the leaves are falling and there is a crisp scent in the air and the harvest is making its way in from the fields and orchards and into our kitchens, to be packed away properly to be enjoyed in the deep cold winter months. So, accordingly, we set to work a few Saturdays ago to preserve one of my favorite fruits and tackled nearly three bushels of ElStar apples - our favorite kind, nice and crispy and flavorful and not mushy (unlike me, heehee). So we started bright and early and peeled and cut and cored and yakked and bantered around until we had an entire counterful of lovely coloured jars ready to be eaten. Yumyum... So come on over for a nice bowl of sauce.

The parents looking slightly guilty or bemused or both...Such an appeeeling pair...
Carina working away in her little corner... aparently (heehee) not getting too far - her bowl's empty... probably cause we just stole her magnum opus!Yep, the poor old antique stove was working overtime - but worked very well - wouldn't want a bigger one at all - would get too tired bringing food from one burner to another - apartment sized stoves are great! Especially ones almost older than i am!
Ummm... we might have made a bit of a mess... oopps!
And the final product - lots of little and big jars of pink (with peels) and yellow (without peels - compote - yummmy) applesauce, all put to bed under clean tea towels cause that's what you do with applesauce jars!

Adoorable....

Just a few pics of my new door and deck - i'm soooo happy with them - it brightens up my dining room so significantly that i can't imagine anymore what it was like without them. Although at first i thought maybe the deck looked like an adult playpen, i've since come around and love the airy feeling that the bars allow. So things are on the move - next stop, tile shop!

Better...

Better... yep... that's a good feeling - after being sorta out of things and calling the couch my home for the last few days - i'm finally feeling a bunch better - oh, still a cough lingering around to remind me of my human frailty, but no fevers or chills! Yeah... makes me have lots of empathy for our patients at work - who are so sick and incapacitated by fevers and fatigue. I count my blessings daily - the wonderful morning sun as i woke up this morning, the view out my back door - yep, the back door is in! Now i can gaze at my garden to my heart's content through new french doors... fun, fun, the lovely classical music lightening up my day, my lovely parents who took good care of me whilst i was down, the love of my family and friends, the desire to work (yep, i miss work! crazy but true) and even just the ability to get up and walk around... so many things we have been blessed with and it's hard to even start naming then cause you don't wanna miss anything... but i think that's it for me for now...i gotta go catch up on my life...

Sick

FLU....no fun! Stay healthy!