I Love Autumn!

FALL is too dull a word for what's surrounding us today.
Red, orange, yellow - piles of leaves on the sidewalks and pine and fir trees shedding their needles. I would scoop them all up and take them home IF I had room and IF they would stay lovely.
Here is a bouquet I made today and you can see the pine needles on the table in front of the container. (Yes, Photoshopped.)
I took a walk and had on good shoes for sloshing my feet through nice dry leaves. On rose bushes there were rose hips of all kinds. Bright, fat, orange ones, soft red ones and some still green and just turning red like an apple.
The tree I am watching hasn't put on any color yet. I'm in no hurry.
On my walk I found a beautiful smoke bush (much taller than me; doesn't take much!) and the leaves aren't nearly as red as our neighbor's smaller potted tree. I think maybe the taller one hasn't gotten as cold and will turn color a little more slowly. Can't wait to see it happen.
I am still reading Michael Chabon's book and want to watch "Ship of Fools." It came in the mail yesterday. I haven't seen it in forever. Fanciful Twist's Halloween worldwide blog party is happening this Saturday. Candace is going to "spook" things up on her blog. I will try, but I cannot promise too much. Maybe pumpkin pie. Stop by for some - femminismo

Thanks to Those Who Dropped In.

THANK YOU for the nice comments on the cupcakes and the strawberry punch. The tea party was fun and I'll surely try it again next year. I'm worn out now, however, and I wanted to show you a picture of the prints I won by commenting on Julie Fillo's blog. They are wonderful!
I promise I will take a picture tomorrow night. Thank you, Julie.
I have been standing at the art table playing with combinations of paint, using bubble wrap to "paint" with and just having the best time. Each page is a different combination -- and this is just a thought, but have you ever found yourself running out of colors? I got a great turquoise combination just by happenstance; sort of a gray sky/blue sky kind of mix. I wonder if I could ever come up with it again?
The fairy picture was a coloring book page I found on someone's blog yesterday when I was catching up with tea parties around the world. There were certainly a bunch of them on A Fanciful Twist's list. (I should be more careful about whose work I "select" and copy. But I thought it was probably an older color book illustration. Enjoy using it yourself if it works for you and I'll try and find out where I got it - or maybe they'll find me! - femminismo