Happy Birthday Scott

I'm not  partial, just honest: I have the sweetest nephew in the world. What makes him also one of the most beautiful people in the world  is his day-by-day regard and compassion for his family and his little animals. 

I wish I could have had a nice dinner for him for his birthday, but since we are so many miles apart, I did this scrapbook page instead while his birthday was on my mind. 

I don't think he was yet in school, when he drew some pictures for my mother, his grandmother, and she thought they were so brilliant for his age that she saved them all these years. They are overlayed on the bottom of the tan scrapbook page.

Fall 2012 Centerpiece

My Handsome Boy

Nicholas the Beautiful watching wrens on his afternoon walk. 

Blooming Okra

The Gatherings

This shot was made during a wave of extreme heat and humidity in the Southeast. Our indoor  thermostat stays around 79, definitely not frigid, but it was so hot when I stepped out that the lenses of my camera fogged up.


I may  use this scene on a calendar project someday.

Harvest Selection

Welcome Fall

Because I always love, immensely, this season of the year, I decided to try a digital scrapbook page using this photo of our fall driveway display since it  almost didn't come into being. 

We decided three years ago to commemorate this season by constructing a scarecrow sometime around the first of October, to display until Thanksgiving. But our commemoration idea came to a abrupt end this year, the third year after its inception. Someone, and I'm not naming names, lost our autumn friend's burlap head.  He was really a neat looking guy, too, like the one from Oz. Minus the best part of the whole, we were left with three choices: (1) we could proceed and create a headless Halloween creature out of Ozy man's remaining parts, (2) we could entirely scrap the  lawn display ritual, or  (3) we could  pay homage to fall with other symbols of the season. Obviously, we chose (3).