Outside My Backdoor

Somewhat distracted by life’s happenings for a while, today, I noticed  fall happening just outside my back door. I was reminded, once again, as there is beauty in the changing seasons, there is beauty in the changes in our lives.

Welcome to the World

Little One

Noah Ryan Solomon

October 15, 2009

5 pounds 13 ounces

Rachel and Son

Sleepytime

Baby of Mine

Baby mine, don’t you cry.
Baby mine, dry your eyes.
Rest your head close to my heart,
never to part,
baby of mine.

Little one when you play,
don’t you mind what they say.
Let those eyes sparkle and shine,
never a tear,
baby of mine.

If they knew sweet little you
they’d end up loving you too.
All of those people who scold you
what they’d give just for the right to hold you.

From your head down to your toes,
you’re not much, goodness knows.
But you’re so precious to me,
sweet as can be,
baby of mine.

If they knew sweet little you,
they’d end up loving you too.
All those same people who scold you,
what they’d give just for the right to hold you.

From your head down to your toes
you’re not much, goodness knows.
But you’re so precious to me,
sweet as can be,
baby of mine.
Baby of mine

Downy or Hairy Woodpecker

Downy

It is probably a downy because they are more common.

If the length of the beak looks smaller than the breadth of the head, it is a downy.

If it appears about 1/2 a foot long, it is a downey.

If it looks smaller than the suet feeder, it is a downy.

Hairy

If the woodpecker’s beak is about the same length as the breadth of his head, it is a hairy.

If he looks about a foot in length, it is a hairy.

Now you know.

October’s Bright Blue Weather

Yeah! Right! However, we did have a day or two of it.

Blue skies,

berries,

bluebirds,

and buckets of mums sing autumnal change.

Confederate rose/Hibiscus mutabilis blooms late in the season until frost and ages pink.

A clematis or two like a little left over summer pop up here and there.

An annual ringed evergreen captured at the mall is still going strong.

Rhododendrons rebloom a bit as well.

October’s Bright Blue Weather

When gentians roll their fingers tight
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October’s bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Indoor October

This little arrangement looks good wherever you put it. I move it around to where the light is best or where I am to enjoy it.