FALL MUMS AND CHANGE

Dear Blogging Friends:  

thank you for bearing with

me as I return to blog land after 

a hard drive crash.....but not in a car!

So I give you this bouquet!  I think I need a

bouquet myself considering all the "new stuff"

I have to learn!  Yesterday I went out in the

garden and grabbed what I could find for my vase.

I have to confess here that I hate learning

 new things - well at least in the computer

 "tech" field.  This disease of not wanting to 

learn new things gets much worse as

 one ages..... not that I am ancient. 

You see,

I was spoiled using Picasa for collages and

watermarking my pictures.  Not anymore.  I see

Picasa is no more so now I have to use a

new format which I have to learn.

Back to my garden blooms - this is

 the weird assortment of what I found

 still surviving our cool nights.

The mums I rooted on the side

 of our house

got huge this fall!

As you can see the leaves are just starting to turn

but with so little rain this summer I think there

won't be a lot of color.

I hope you can join me next week for tea

related "Friends Sharing Tea" blog party on Wednesday.

FALL COLLAGES

My old scarecrow tea

 lady is here today to greet

you at the door!

It's always fun to change up my armoire

for each season with tea wares that
reflect the calendar. 

And the buffet top:

And this is actually part of a "Perk-o-lator"

coffee pot I found recently which holds a

big 8 cups so I plan to use it for tea as

I think it has a "Jane Austen" feel about it
with the silhouettes on it.

More porch decorations:

We are having some much needed

rain today.  My heart is heavy as

I am sure your's is about the

shootings in Nevada.
  Let's pray for
our country.