Thursday November 3, 2011

 

 

Sunrise to Sunset

 

 

Sunrise was filled with purple/pink hues this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jesse was here for a few hours, and spent a lot of time playing a Mario game.

 

 

Meanwhile Cerwin was picking up leaves with our ‘redneck’ leaf catcher.

 

 

The base is a trailer that Jere used for a sprayer. Cerwin added the top part – and it works perfectly! He is so clever.

 

 

When that job was finished, he dug a hole in the pavilion area of the woods for a tree he will plant on Saturday.

 

 

We gradually lost five or six trees in this area due to a major lightening strike about ten years ago, and want to plant a tree to replace some of the lost shade.

 

 

Because most of the trees in our woodlot have yellow/orange leaves in the fall, we chose one that will have red leaves – an “Autumn Blaze” maple tree.

 

 

We are not sure what kind of maple this red-leafed tree is, but it is the one that gave us the idea to go for a red maple.

 

 

By late afternoon the early November moon was visible in the clear, blue sky.

 

 

Look at the difference after I put my long lens on, used the full 300 mm, then cropped it a bit.

 

 

When I turned my back to the moon, I saw this.

 

 

I love fall sunsets.

 

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As for me, I designed a TFC banquet program for Saturday night, added some addresses to my database (I will have 30,000 names in my database by the time I have entered all the mailing list names from the TFC’s new staff.)

Also, I spent a bit of time finalizing arrangements for taking our family on a “Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary Cruise” in late January – all twenty-seven of us are going! We are going about a year and a half before our anniversary for various reasons – one being we found a good deal for a late January trip – which is about the only time it suits everyone. Also, our grandchildren are all in the United States, making the trip possible for each one, and there are no babies right now.

As we discussed this earlier this year, Cerwin felt that 2012 may be better for a trip than 2013, and none of us disagreed.

We are looking forward to all being together for seven days.

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