The second morning glory is about to bloom.
If you look in the background, you can see some tiny blooms developing. In fact, they’re everywhere among both sections of morning glories.
Is this ‘blooming two months later than normal’ thing going to become a regular occurrence? Normally, we would most likely have had a frost by now and they would be gone. But, a quick scan of the weather forecast for the next two weeks shows no frosts. So…I think we’re going to get to see some pretty morning glories before I have to leave for the city. A lovely little autumn surprise. They, along with the still blooming zinnias, keep me going when all my pretty summer flowers are gone. I also spy a bud on the moonflowers, so….please, please, please…maybe I’ll get to see one or two?
I’m going to have to research this. Is it because of climate change? A very rainy and wet summer? Both? Neither? When I get some spare time, which is at a premium these days, I’ll see what I can find out.
I didn’t hear him this morning, but the Carolina wren has been hanging out around the porch for the last several days. A lovely gift, as I’ve really come to love those perky little birds.
Coaching Ben again today. Don’s car is in the shop. We have to clean the gutters today as it’s going to rain tomorrow. Waiting for our taxes to be filed at the end of the day – dreading what we might owe. It’s a nervous day for me, so I will try to be in the now, something my husband always reminds me of, thank goodness.
I’m reading The Lantern Men by Elly Griffiths. Then the newest, which is still in hardcover. I’ll be caught up at that point. I have books stacked up, ready to travel with me to NYC. I’m also going to order a jigsaw puzzle to take with me. As I get more and more information from the production company in my emails, I can see where we will be shooting on any given day, when we have meetings, that kind of thing. It becomes more real.
You do know that I won’t be able to share details on the days on the set? That’s not for public consumption. It’s not any different than my previous decisions to not share theater rehearsal information. I’ll share what I can, but the blog will more likely be about sights I see along the way, places I visit on my days off, that kind of thing.
Okay. Lots to do today and I have to get going. Fingers crossed for more morning glories. Fingers crossed for Don’s car and for relatively little money due to the IRS.
Stay safe.
Happy Friday.
Good morning! That has to be one of the most beautiful flower buds I’ve ever seen. So delicate. And the soft color…so different from what awaits inside. Glad they are blooming finally.
Love the darling girls too! When we are young, someone else usually picks our dolls for us. A nice privilege of growing up….picking our own dolls and the courage to play as we see fit. And these are cuties! I wonder if their dressmaker does size 8?
Have a lovely day. Verna
I wonder….
I must confess I’d love adult human versions of many of those cute outfits!
Stay safe, Verna
What a treat to have more morning glory blooms!
I just finished Louise Penny’s latest “The Madness of Crowds”. I read it so fast as I couldn’t put it down – sitting up late reading, first thing in the morning reading… It’s good! and so many quotes still bouncing around in my head.
Happy Friday!
Stay safe!
I may hold off reading it until the film is finished. We’ll see!
Stay safe, Ellen!
Another Ruth Galloway coming out in February? The Locked Room. Yay!
Yes! I saw that! Hurrah!
Stay safe, Shanna!
Oh, and another Bosch/Renee Ballard coming in November!
xo!
Would you consider asking Jim for a pic of you two to post here where you both have so many fans? Fingers crossed
I already have a picture of the two of us on the blog from when I saw him in Harvey. If it’s possible, we’ll get a picture.
Stay safe, Sue!
Hi Claudia,
It seems that here in Calif. everything bloomed late (some plants not at all). Today is like a warm summer day not an October fall day. So, like Don says, I will try to be in the “now” and be happy for a beautiful day here in sunny California.
It’s warm here today, too!
Stay safe, Linda.
Yeah, I’m in Southern Calif and we’re hot, in the 90s, with strong Santa Ana wind. The wind is what it is; this is the time of year; so, I stay out of it, keep indoors, but I do enjoy the clear-blue sky which comes with the low humidity. Tomorrow will be hotter but then we’ll cool down again, or so it’s hoped. Would sure help the firefighters trying to contain wildfire.
So Vicki, I am in northern Calif. where it also gets windy and we also experience wildfires. My son-in-law is a firefighter and has gone on numerous wildfires in southern and northern Calif.
I do like living in Calif. though. Hopefully the wildfires will be fully contained soon and no more new ones.
Thank your son-in-law for his service to all of us with his firefighting skills!
I remember Santa Ana winds from when I lived there. They were very hard on my allergies!
xo
Claudia, I so hope you get good news about the taxes. And that the Pilot’s repairs aren’t too costly.
Thanks, too, for today’s pretty buds; nicest photos!
Remind me again: Is your first day at work on the film, in Manhattan, on Oct 25 or Nov 1?
As you so wisely say, Claudia: ‘I will try to be in the now.’ Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve had another talk with myself for the umpteenth time since 2015 when ‘politics’ started drumming up that, although I find it interesting, I’m again too tuned in to news of the day; and, of course as we all know, it’s the sensational stories which sell ad space/ad time and grab people’s attention. I’m grateful for the media; glad they expose necessary things; shine a light.
But even on the TV nighttime news, you hear the musical ‘open’ to a program, and I was thinking of how even that music can fill me, unconsciously I guess, with a sense of dread, as in ‘pay attention; this is bad stuff in today’s news YOU NEED TO KNOW’. (Just … forbidding! ‘Warning, warning! Be on high alert!” [yikes]) But how much DO I need to know? It’s that fine line we’ve all often discussed of being informed vs being scared to death (with politics-democracy, climate change and natural disasters, racial unrest, murders and mayhem, the pandemic, global supply shortages, topics of aging and all the stuff we shouldn’t be eating or doing; cripes, it’s neverending for worry nagging at the brain; an ASSAULT).
So, I’m feeling determined, almost militant, to self-protect and nurture. You’ve got your new dolls, Claudia; I’ve gotta pick something new, too. We need to pamper our bodies AND our brain with what’s best, not what’s harmful. The thing, too, with all the cringe-worthy, sad and horrifying news, like on TV each day, right there in our faces, is that it makes you forget to think of all the inspiring, uplifting and wonderful news which also happened and didn’t get reported. How, yeah, the world is disturbing and there are a lot of bad people out there, but it’s also a world of amazingly-beautiful stuff, full of decent and good people just living their lives, often living selfless lives, being of service; being kind.
Some of the news programs will give you like one-eighth of good news at the end of their show, but the rest of that show is seven-eighths BAD news. To the point of, at least for now, you know what? I’m done. I’m putting myself on ‘limitation’ level; for the time being, one national news and one local news source, once a day; that’s it. My husband thinks AP online is the best non-biased news source for national news. I may try out that; however, maybe I’ll go to something like PBS news hour (can’t educational TV be good?!); and I have a favorite (maybe not so somber), somewhat-local (Los Angeles) news channel for news closer to home. I’m putting aside the newspapers for now. Just gotta get things back in order around here.
(When my ancestors were out farming on the prairie in the 1800s, they didn’t get ‘news’ for months; each new day, they had enough worries [since farming is unpredictable; and, of course, in those years there was no real access to medical care; there was childhood disease; there were farm accidents with equipment; a crop could be lost to hail], but they concentrated on what was in front of them: Work and home and family and God. One guy was a wood carver by firelight in the evening; his wife did her lap sewing and mending. This was their down time; their relaxation to balance out the earlier hard work of the day, when she’d tended the chickens and vegetable garden and done housework and cooking [laundry day alone was a huge endeavor, hauling water from the creek to boil]. He’d tilled the soil; planted seeds or harvested. [Was a lot of physical activity.] The little ones had their schooling and playtime when they weren’t helping with farm chores. The whole family would sing hymns and also non-religious songs for their entertainment at day’s end; the older folks would tell stories. They’d read their Bible. If they were lucky, they had another book or two in the house. They went to bed early and were tired. Not an easy life, not exactly a simple life … but there was a pureness about it. And they didn’t just survive; they mostly thrived in their small corner of the world. And I know there’s a lesson in that for myself; I just need to ‘listen’ to those who came before me.)
xoxo
Yes, backing off the constant barrage of news is, in my opinion, the only sane thing to do. We’re not meant to hear everything all the time. Our brains and hearts and souls aren’t supposed to be constantly pummeled with warnings and dire predictions. God, I miss the days when we had three evening news reports on the major networks and daily newspapers and that was it. It was so much better then.
xo
The first day of filming is 28th. My first day is on the 29th.
Stay safe, Vicki.
I’m not sure if it’s climate change or not, but it is meant to be spring here and Monday’s overnight temperature was -0.5°C (31.1°F) which is unheard of for this time of the year. Good luck with your taxes, I hope it works out in your favour.
Still haven’t heard anything about our taxes! Hope to hear today.
Stay safe, Jan.
Guess who arrived at my house today? Why, a Blythe doll I’ve come to think of as Babs! My daughter and four year old grandson picked up and brought our mail, including a box with Babs and a few clothes plus an envelope with another Babs outfit. My grandson was excited to help open both packages, and everyone was impressed by her eyes. Her very bendy body gave my grandson pause, and when I removed her hands to better slip her into her sweater he didn’t like it. I just ordered a replacement for his original 18” doll and a handmade outfit so we can play dolls together. He likes miniatures and dollhouses and comes over to play with a trailer and van from Calico Critters at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.
I’ve had good luck with white cosmos this year in our garden. I keep cutting off the dead flowers and the buds keep on coming!
Best of luck with all the busy-ness in your life right now,
Barb
Whoo hoo! Congratulations on your Blythe doll, Barb! Where did you find her? What does she look like? I want to know everything!
You can always send me a picture at the email address at the top of the sidebar on the blog.
You’re going to love her.
Stay safe.