Sunday

Early Thursday morning, the Amtrak passenger train rolls through Westfield, New York.

On a drive to Erie, Pa last week, the clouds off to the south were so amazing. These clouds hung around all day, but over us up north the sky was clear and beautiful.

This is our youngest granddaughter Jalyn, and her first lost tooth. She has 3 more loose, and hopes she gets new ones by the time corn season rolls around..

Azrael is one of my barn cats, and it a super hunter, but still loves to clown around too. BTW, since I have had the Hav-a-Hart trap set hoping to catch the coons that have been raiding my bird feeders, I've caught Azrael 3 times. LOL She wasn't upset either.

On Thursday we took the girls out to breakfast and were able to see the morning passenger train ( see above. That shot is out of order.). It was the first time they had seen this train, and they were really excited to get to wave at all the people riding the train. On the way there we drove by a riding stable and all these donkeys were waiting for their breakfast..

We went to the beach too and we all searched for beach glass. Lots and lots of feathers littered the sand. This is a gull feather.

This town has a different sect of Amish than we have at home. Their buggies have brown tops where our local Amish drive all black ones. Can you see the little boy riding in the back. They also have a barrier across the back of this buggy to keep any youngsters from falling out.

In the town of Westfield New York they have plenty of black squirrels. We drove around for a while and saw a few. I even saw a black one with a reddish tail, but couldn't get my camera focused before he ran away..
This is also the town that then President Abraham Lincoln stopped here on his way through to visit with a small girl who sent him a letter saying he would be much more handsome if he grew a beard. They have a wonderful statue of the two of them, and I will take pictures the next time we go there and do a post.

While we were waiting for more trains, the girls found lots of ripe black raspberries for their cereal, and they each got to take home a small bag..

We saw some grey squirrels too.
I hope you all are having a wonderful week-end. Tomorrow I have 3 rose bushes to plant, and the weather folks say we are going to get rain late in the afternoon. It is so dry, it will be welcome.

Ruby Tuesday

Saturday morning we went to watch our granddaughters play Peewee baseball. What a great time we had, and this is Becca the oldest. She does a super job.

High Fives Bec! !

Happy Ruby Tuesday and do click on over to http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/ to see lots more RED.

Catch Up

A few catch up shots. More rain and lots of fog today, so looking back at these from a couple weeks ago.
The Ornimental Cabbage still looks good! The leaves from our big Norway maple tree in our front yard. It usually keeps it's leaves green till almost December, but this year the leaves are beautiful and mostly yellow.
In autumn, the days get shorter and the temperatures get cooler. The sun doesn’t warm the leaves as directly or intensely as it did during spring and summer. In these shorter, cooler days, the process of making food within the leaves ceases. As this occurs, the leaves use the food they’ve stored throughout the summer. This causes the leaves’ green pigment to become less dominant, and gives other colors an opportunity to be displayed.

Walking on our creek trail I came upon 3 deer crossing the water to the oposite side. Only 2 are visable.

Down the path farther on the limb where the wood ducks usually rest is this big Great blue Heron. Sorry the shots aren't very good color. It was in the late afternooon, and the sun was shining right on him. I just concentrated on taking pictures before he spied me and took off.

Looks like he's sleeping.

Talk about a bad hair day!

Under the chin itch.

Another yellow maple tree.

At the beach looking at the dried grasses.

One morning the temperature was 24 deg. and frost everywhere.

Jalyn and Becca playing in the leaves.