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  • Festival of Color! What a feast for the eyes!!! What an outrageous photo free-for-all! I am so torn at balloon festivals...do I just stand back and enjoy what I see? Or..."Quick! The camera! That would …

  • Balloons... Our city hosts a balloon festival every October. It begins on Friday morning, with several balloon teams going out to the elementary schools to show the students the equipment, and actually fly, if the…

  • Happy, happy ghosts! We happened upon this Halloween display in front of someone's house yesterday...I just love it! It's nice to take a wrong turn sometimes and discover neat things like this off the normal pa…

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  • Spooky moon..... Ohhh...how much spookier can you get than an eclipsing moon during Halloween week? Wooooohahahahahahaha! Df called me around 9pm (the wee morning hours for her) to tell me she was l…

  • contents of the 4-year-old's purse: 1. purse (a transparent, zipper bag that contained a gift pack of socks at one time) 2. chapstick (Mommy's idea of lipstick) 3. real lipstick, mauve-colored, worn down to a…

  • We harvested 2 pumpkins from the garden this year! Yay! Here's one of them..with evidence of last night's weather. Raindrops add so much to a picture. Wednesday, October 27th is lunar eclipse day! Today!! …

  • Hellllooo! We're back from Grandma's. How is everybody? It was a good time. THe Halloween extravaganza (Grandma **loves** Halloween...) included carving pumpkins, baking pumpkin sugar cookies, making Halloween co…

  • see ya in a week.... Kids and I are going for a week's Halloween extravaganza at Grandma's house. I'd like to get in here and visit a bit if we get to the library up there. Everyone have a great week! In hono…

  • More holiday... Ok...just a few more entries about our holiday across the pond..more pictures... Here's some on the quay at Looe, when the tide was in: Look at those nets! It is written that Looe is the…

  • Fall is here! Autumn has made it to the desert. We live around mountains in the high elevation desert (around 5,000 feet), so we enjoy subtle changes of the seasons. Most of the changing occurs up on the mountains. …

  • rainy, rainy day... This was a particularly wet day of climbing over rocks and exploring rocky pools on the coastal path from Looe Beach... There they are! Some of us waaay on top of of the rock. This was …

  • Artsyfriend gave me some chai-flavored coffee. It sits with me here, and dd is drinking all of it. The sip or two I've had has been heavenly, though. She's been stuck to my body like velcro all week...(dd) Her …

  • Cornwall beaches..... Ya'all have been leaving such nice comments...I thank you for those, and for being interested in these vacation photos! It's great just having and now processing the experience, but it is ev…

  • Lovely Looe..... Looking on into West Looe from the East Looe quay car park We didn't venture into Looe till our third day in Cornwall. But from that day onward, we spent the remainder of our holiday in East L…

  • and now...the star Who is this masked woman? Well, all I know is that while walking on the beach in Cornwall, she was there, and she made herself look pretty funny. So I had to take a picture of this …

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