Black Friday, Pictionary, Hobbit and Fences.

  This past month has been something else. It seems as though you see all the same news stories about Black Friday, "People get trampled, Brawls Erupt etc." It amazes me that people can act in such a way. We never go shopping during Black Friday, but then again, Elizabeth is a small, town, so I don't think anybody got trampled or beaten to death here.

  This Thanksgiving was a lot of fun, unfortunately, our cousins were not there, but we made the best of it. We played "Pictionary", and our team totally smoked the other team, by more than half the board. We had the better guessers, and the other team was more skilled at drawing.

  We then hit a cold snap, which sent temperatures down to -15 here. I must say, I was not happy when the chicken waterer was frozen solid one morning, but hey, what do you expect when it is -15? Our chickens seemed to have all but stopped laying eggs; however, we have been getting more and more as the temperatures rise. 

  

  This week, my brother and I went down to our grandparents to fix their picket fence, which a bear tore down. It wasn't so hard getting the posts out of the ground, except for the second post which was sunk in concrete and sandstone, that took us quite a bit to finally get the concrete out, but luckily, we got them all out, and the new ones in and put in concrete by the end of the day. we got everything else done the next day. 

  While we were there, we saw the movie "Hobbit" for the first time. I'm not huge into fantasy movies, but this was the exception, it was really good, and I really enjoyed it, especially the battle scenes. The next day, we went to the theatre to see a movie called "Frozen" but I guess something was not right on their website, so they had no tickets for it, so we ended up watching the second Hobbit, which was even better than the first, but they leave you hanging in both ones. 

  I still have to get Thanksgiving pictures done, I might post some odds and ends from that batch, but I hope to post some pictures of the frost soon. We had a really cool frosty morning on Friday, it looked sort of Narnia-ish, everything look white, and there wasn't even a breeze outside, and it wasn't terribly cold out either. 

Anyway, here are the pictures for the day.   

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Life

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 

The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

~Albert Einstein

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Quote and Picture of the Day

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant 

about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”

~Joe L. Wheeler 

Answer to Riddle:

Sweater

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Riddle and Picture of the Day.

Can You Solve This Riddle?

You go in through one hole, you come out through three holes. Once you're inside you're ready to go outside, but once you're outside you're still inside. What is it?

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Quote of the Day

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.  

~John Barrymore

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Quote and Picture of the Day.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. 

 ~Chris Hart

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Quote for the Day

Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you've been up to.  ~Author Unknown

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Quote for the Day

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

-Elizabeth Bowen

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Picture and Quote of the Day

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

-Helen Hunt Jackson

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Fall Colors

  Well, the fall leaves have come and gone, our aspen trees are completely bare. Now for the winter months. I decided to do this post completely about fall. I hope you enjoy these photos.

 “I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.” 
-Jarod Kintz

 “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile.”  
-William Cullen Bryant

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” 
-Albert Camus

“When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!” 
-Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Grandparents Visit

    That was fun! I can't believe this week went so fast! Our Grandparents from out of town are already gone. It seems like they just got here. The first day, we went to a mall, where my Mom and Grandma, went shopping for clothes. 

    Grandpa and I walked around the entire mall, both levels while they shopped. We saw some pretty cool stores in there. We saw this new car called the "Tesla" car, which runs off a Tesla coil. It is one of the safest cars on the market, because it has no engine, so there is more crumple space. 

At the restaurant, our waitress was from Ukraine. It was different to hear a foreign accent, but at the same time, kind of cool.

When we were going home from Lake George, we saw a bald eagle, thanks to our sister in law's sharp eyes! While we were up at the cabin, we watched a movie called "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable, and Claudette Cobert. It was really good, for a movie made in the 30's

Just outside of Woodland Park, I saw the side of Pikes Peak, and had to take a picture, luckily, we were at a stop light, so holding my camera, with a telephoto was much easier.

The sunset near Elizabeth, was amazing! This picture doesn't do it justice. It looked like flames earlier, and then started to fade to this.

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Leaves, Raspberries, and Moss Covered Rocks

Some of these are from Lake George and some are from Rainbow Falls. I hope you enjoy!

The morning I snapped this, I was freezing cold. It was the only leaf around that had fallen on the ground. I really liked how the frost rimmed the leaf.

Later during that hike, I found this spot where the birds seemed to all hang out. I sat there for quite some time, just enjoying the birds singing. Of course, they never came close enough to where I could get and extreme close up.

This was wild raspberry bush nestled in some logs. They are everywhere on the side of the mountain. One bush actually had some fruit on it, but they were much to small to pick.

This was taken in Rainbow Falls. I thought it was interesting, that the plants were growing out of the moss, right on top of the rock. 

 A friend of mine from Texas, was walking with me and pointed out that rock that had the water cascading over it, looked like the bow of a ship. You can't see the general shape very well in this picture, but directly from the side, it looked much like the bow of a ship.

I don't know if it's just me, but, I love rocks with moss on them. I think there is something really cool about them. I had been there before, but I had never really appreciated the way they look, and all the photographic possibilities.

There were rose bushes everywhere around the rocks. Some were above my head, by at least three feet or more. Although, walking past them, and through them, was not very pleasant. I found a lot of stickers stuck in my pants at the end of the hike.

 I am always amazed at how trees can grow straight out of rock! Every time I see them, I think to myself "How can something so easy to break and cut, grow out of solid rock" It is truly amazing!

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