Last Soccer Game of the Season

last Sunday in October

Southern Two-Striped Walking Stick

roasted beets - Levi & I will especially devour these

green beans planted here in mid-September will make
wasn't sure if it was too late
no killing frost yet 

brass headboard I couldn't live with
though I hesitated for months...

primed & ready for the next: dark charcoal metallic

weekend lesson in flint/steel fire starting
teaching Levi how

Levi got a fire started all on his own

sleepy girl

racking a carboy of stout

the capper

now the waiting
2 weeks until we crack the first one

Sunday afternoon playing guitar

October full moon

This was last weekend - learning to ride without training wheels.
This weekend, as I write in fact, boards & cinder blocks are being made into jumping ramps out in the driveway.  (And yes, he does have his helmet on now).
How quickly they learn.

When walking to the beehive barefooted...

Full Moon Rising

Chilies to roast.  We're still hitting high 80s in the days & 60s at night.  Perfect for these poblanos.  I've got a steady stream of them coming in.

A little news from us:  Joe has taken a new job, beginning in December, teaching classes at a nearby technical college.  

He'll be the new director of the their land/forest/wildlife program.

a visit from the folks

blood moon > nearly new

keeping a friend's child several days this week and last
so easy because they play all day & I just check in

and so they begin

looking so simple to start

a little more

and then
LAVISH
please do cover my grave with these

my arboreal children