Welcome Back!

So sorry for the my absence but I have been dealing with a family tragedy and can finally come up for air and catch up on some much needed blogging.

Summer skipped by and I didn't even notice until Fall stared me down in the face , giving me no choice but to catch up & be in the present. Why is this so hard to do sometimes?...wish my brain would come with buttons...an on/off button would be MINT!  ...especially at night when my body is crying out for a good night's sleep .

A good friend of mine shared this saying with me and it is so very very true!
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Fall comes with so many activities, decorating, pruning, cleaning, pumpkin farms and baking...lots and lots of baking. I hope you are enjoying the joys of the season.

Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Thomas Moore

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

John Keats

Ode to Autumn