It’s Fall~!

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I love Fall and Halloween. Last October I totally exhausted myself trying to post a different Halloween decoration every day of the month. I didn’t make it but I gave it the ole college try.

This October I haven’t posted a single Fall or Halloween entry. So here it comes. This is the beautiful Japanese Maple right near our front door. It had been doing poorly the last couple of years and didn’t really change color. A friend helped me prune it this spring. We cut off the diseased limb and wow, it is doing so much better. Look at this fabulous color:

I put out lots of Halloween decorations but I always change it up a bit each year. Here is my pumpkin head collection.

The picture on the wall was my treat to myself when I taught in Sisters this summer. The artist is Barbara Berry and she lives in Central Oregon. This painting takes me into the woods. It makes me happy to look at it every morning.