In Memoriam: Life is a Bowl of. . .

With October behind us, the blandness of November begins. The trees will be bare, the grasses brown, the skies gray. October left us in celebration and sadness.

Yesterday was a day of celebration. Our college student who lived with us while she did her under grad work at UNC, had her birthday, so we held a little surprise luncheon for her as her grandparents traveled from the Western Slope to come visit her for her birthday. After lunch and cake and ice cream, the Head Gardener and I went to Elinore's birthday party. More good food, cake and ice cream and a mountain of presents. Boone turned one on Halloween. Since the HG was off harvesting corn, we didn't celebrate, but I did buy him treats and toys one of which he has already nearly destroyed.




Playing around in Picasa, I managed to come up with a couple of mosaics that sum up October: Apple picking, garden gone to seed, Peretilote's small clutch, and the last leaf on the eastern red bud.

I filled a small glass dish with pods and leaves, and apples just to see what I could up with. I am not always so good with still life photography. So here you have it, October in a bowl.

In the last six weeks, we have suffered loss. In September my sister's husband Larry passed after a bitter fight with lung cancer. Two weeks ago my dear cousin in Seattle, Linda, passed after succumbing to an aneurysm suffered while she shopped at Home Depot. Lastly, my husband's brother in law stopped breathing at home Thursday morning. Paramedics were able to bring him around, but he passed Friday night. Tests showed that he had undiagnosed lung cancer, with tumors in the same location as Larry had. So my sister and my husband's sister both lost their husbands to the same disease weeks apart. Uncle Mike was dear sweet man who loved horses. I thought it fitting to write a memoriam with a picture of Sundance, the horse that he gave our daughter Jennifer when he was just 18 months old. 

In in the States, November begins the holiday season with Thanksgiving. We may or may not have the big feast, depending on what the girls do. They usually go to their in laws, which is fine for us. We are expecting a weather change tomorrow, along with the time change. We may even have some snow. Great. Just Great. I am not looking forward to snow. 

I am linking with Mosaic Monday with Judith at Lavender Cottage. I seem to have fallen into a routine of writing the blog on Sundays to post my week's photos in mosaics. I should probably post more during the week, but I often find it hard to come up with the Sunday post. This week looks to be rather quiet. The HG will head back to eastern Colorado early in the morning to help finish up corn harvest. Hopefully he will be home by Wednesday for good. 

I wish you all a great week, a week with your bowl of life over flowing with sweetness and good. 

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