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 It's Fall y'all. 

I grew up in Tampa Fl. and we didn't really have a "weather" Fall. We started to school which told us Fall was coming, we planned Thanksgiving dinner which meant Fall, we watched movies set in other states that had colored leaves, we made handprint turkeys

 but it wasn't til I visited my husband in Amherst MA that I really saw Fall. 

 Then we moved to Maryland and I got to know Fall up close and personal.  

This is an older quilt made to celebrate my poodle Cole when he was Milo's age. He loved picking up a twig with dried leaves and shaking it like a maraca. Glee! 

I painted the leaves then appliqued them with Cole buddy and his teeth are rick rack and stand out! 

The picture was taken on my bed recently while I'm cataloguing all my quilts, I'm taking pics of each one. 

Now for a few random shots from recent trips

Step into my parler... 

don't you love seeing into a house through a window as you pass by? 

This house turned out to be too small for us however... I am a quilter so I need more square footage! lol

It was in the antique store I visited recently in Mt. Holly. The store was an old car repair maybe an old wagon repair building. 

I coveted this type set drawer unit. OMG to have the space to have one of these to hold beads, buttons and trims! 

Ditto this writing desk/chair combo. I like it, but you need the right space and that's larger than we've found. 

"S" for stained glass

How pretty to have one or all of these in your home's windows! Did you ever try stained glass? I did as a young woman. I took so many craft classes as a young 20 something. I really love stained glass but I didn't listen to my instructor, and just made a quick cut in class and hadn't put back on my goggles. Yup, a bit of glass scratched my cornea turning me into what looked like a pirate with patch for a week. I recently gave up my glass scoring tool and lead came. 

I kept a couple items I made in class. 

I thought this was an odd but interesting awning... never saw one like this before, have you? 

It feels really good to walk where our ancestors did. Compared to Wethersfield this is a Johnny-come-lately home but I still think about the person building this before the Revolution happened. What did they think? Did they realize life would change here in the colonies in just a few years? What an act of faith to build a house in a land as wild as America. Still is. 

I enjoyed this Fall display of white pumpkins even though I love orange ones. With the wagon and hay it creates a tableau. I wonder if children pulled each other with this wagon long ago. I wish it could tell the story to us now. 

Hindsight makes us think people who lived before us should know what was coming but they like us, just live that day not knowing if their decisions were good or not. They had to make life decisions and cope with the changes as they cropped up like we do. 

I need a good time traveler to tell me what's coming. 

 The sign under this window says, "please watch your step" 

I know, I know... life is watching your steps...

Being careful, looking ahead, making decisions and dealing with the problems that happen anyway despite your careful planning. As a friend told me recently, "you can make plans but you can't plan the outcome" 

It's a balance of planning, thinking and taking risks

A precarious balance of pots!

As a person who seldom fit in, I loved seeing this sign...

 People are always telling me how I am "different" and somehow it doesn't sound like the celebration it should be, know what I mean? We are all "different" and it's just the differences which make us interesting. 

If we accepted that people are different and it's okay, and actually valued that,  we could go through this life easier I suspect.

 Milo's stick has no dried leaves to rattle, but he could still carry it around. 

So he did. 

(He was just as content since he didn't know he was missing dried leaves) 

What do you think?  

Did you enjoy this post? There is another one from the same trip right HERE! click to see it!

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