Flash Back Friday 139

Edward & "Bunny", 1994

Red Velvet Birthday

I'm going to enjoy my favorite cake here virtually since I'm not sure if we'll get a chance for cake today. It will be a great day though!! I'm going hot-tubbing in the afternoon with a friend and then in the evening, we are going with Edward to a scholarship dinner downtown. We found out he is a recipient of a scholarship from the Dutch International Society. He's going to study engineering at the Vrij University in Amsterdam second semester!

Birthday Week Kick-off

There's something special about the week starting with November 1. The ugly holiday is over, Thanksgiving is coming, All Saint's day. Yesterday, it was so great to see our friends at church, and then we met Edward at Wolfgang's in Eastown for a pre-birthday brunch. And later, our friends Cathy & Ben came over for a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit.

The waitress was kind enough to take our pre-birthday brunch photo


The kids enjoyed big sweet plates of Belgian waffles and French toast


I was trying to capture some of the left-over glitter from Edward's "Edward Cullen vampire costume" but you can't see it


I had Spinach Eggs Benedict


What fun kids! I love how they know how to do this part.

A Ghost Post

The sad thing about all those beautiful fall leaves is they need to be raked up. Well, just in time for Halloween, a very friendly hard working ghost came:



But so that we did not get too spooked, a fun one came too!

Flash Back Friday 138

Bridget, Fall 1999


Bridget, Fall 2009

Red Velvet

Each fall, the leaves on our Japanese Maple which we see through the front window turn such a fiery red and they look so graceful hanging from the branches.



Then sadly, they fall to the ground...



... reminding me of red velvet cake.



Just in time! Guess what next week is? :)

Golden

I looked out the window, as I was recovering from the flu, at the beautiful golden tree out in the back yard. The colours are so gorgeous this week that I know something is wrong when I don't even want to get the camera out. Finally, I did.

Then when Leo came to the backdoor, he was looking golden to me too.

Paintings

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” S. Horowitz

A River

Here we are on a Sunday night watching A River Runs Through It for the Umpteenth time. I thought of the river pix I took a few weeks ago. This weekend was featuring beautiful fall colours in Michigan, but dreary weather, so I didn't get out for new pix. So sad.

"My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

Big Bev Blowing Bubbles

The Queen Mother blows bubbles at the wedding on Kelleys Island. September 2009

I have always wanted to take pictures of bubbles and I have even bought bubbles for this very reason. However, you need a bubble blower, they don't just blow themselves! Big Bev blows bubbles beautifully!!!

Flash Back Friday 137

Sister Paula needed to make the flashback! Christmas, 2004

Love Thursday

Maybe this was the best pic I took at that little wedding on the island...

One Day on Lake Erie

I realized that I have many photos from the Chris & Lindsay's wedding which I would still like to put on this blog. The ceremony was beautiful down by the water. The rain held off for the 1:30pm ceremony and the flowers glowed under a grey sky. Lake Erie was a soft green that day.

Fall Photo Shoot

You know how when every Fall the leaves are changing and you know soon the colour will be gone and it will be winter for a very long time? This is when I feel the need to get out and capture some of it with my camera. Deirdre was up for the adventure, so we headed out Saturday, October 17. Well peops, Fall is late this year! We still have a lot of green left on our trees.

The Flat River reflecting some of the green and gold in Lowell, MI

Well, if the leaves aren't quite ready, I always love to do people shots...

We turned our attention to this milky stream in Fallasburg Park. It was dark enough there in the late afternoon for 5-6 sec. shutter speeds. Fun.




Real fun.