Catching up 10-21

Pretty mums.

Time continues to get away from me.  I've been busy, but events' time placement in my memory bank gets sketchy.  I have to look at a calendar to figure out how long Larry has been home.  We have accomplished a lot, but in my world of time compression it feels like he has been home only a few days when it has been a week and a half.  

He was busy getting stuff done that needed doing.  This past Monday we had a memorial party to go to in Hercules and on the way we delivered the caddie to its new owner, visited some friends too on the way.

Still stunning, huge rose blooms!  You stick your nose
in these soft beauties and instant "nosegasm"!

We spend a lot of time talking and getting caught up.  Mornings can slip away from us...we take a walk/hike, have breakfast and then get started talking about some insight one of us has had or thought or dream and before we know it the morning has crept into afternoon. Then we get busy doing whatever chores we've decided are important and so it goes.  Twice a week I go to pilates class at 9 a.m., so breakfast gets a late start to begin with...10:30 or so.  Gracie makes me take way more walks then I would have in the past and of course I am better for them.

Crape myrtle color

I've imposed a moratorium on new photos until I get the past six months worth named and shoved into files and readied for Larry to add to our running album of the year.  I get really lazy about dating, naming and filing the photos.  I take so many pictures and I get overwhelmed on the managing of them.  I try to delete the horrible ones, but I keep tons that I know I'll have a use for some day but don't want to clog our regular folder with.  Larry has rubbed off on me and I realized that organization helps on down the road when I want to find a certain picture for a certain purpose.  I have a feeling though that my system might be more complicated then it needs to be, but maybe not.

BUT, with these pictures I'm posting here of the fall garden, you can see I've picked up the camera a teeny bit.  Gracie and I went out on the trail with Larry a couple days ago and I abstained from picture taking.  We saw bear tracks on our trail and we crossed paths with a big coyote, it was a gorgeous sunny morning.  The trail is powdered dirt in spots and Gracie comes back all dirt dusted from her feet to the tops of her sides, we just get dusted up to our knees.

We've been having stunning weather, shorts and sunshine weather.  No rain this fall so far so not a lot of stunning fall colors around here.  The neighbors trees that were so colorful last fall have had their leaves just turn brown and fall off, the same with some of the oaks around here.

Oaks

Chinese pistache trees getting started

A huge perfect rose next to my glass pumpkin