some snapshots...

The flu bug (or blue bug, as Little Man calls it) has descended upon us, and for the last two weeks we've experienced most of the ups & downs that come with it. A little R&R is good at times like these,
and I'm even more grateful for cozy quilts, fluffy pillows, good books, and a purring cat (who, by the way, likes to sleep on us!) These, along with daily hugs & kisses, have been the best medicine of all.

The month is flying by, so I wanted to take a minute to post a handful of pictures of October around our farm.

a late-blooming clematis

for my "someday" bees!

just for fun

limelight hydrangea

corn still waiting to be harvested

maple leaves in the afternoon sun

today's foggy morning

a Sunday sunset

When the heat of summer's over

and the coolin' fall is here,

Of course we miss the flowers, 

and the blossoms on the trees,

And the mumble of the hummin' birds 

and buzzin' of the bees;

But the air's so appetizin',

and the landscape through the haze,

of a crisp and sunny morning of the airy autumn days...

when the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock.

-James Whitcomb Riley