Fall Has Arrived

I hope that all of you had a great equinox.  In my area of the world, Autumn has now arrived.  That means I'll soon be seeing snow and shoveling again, and that comes under the heading of NOT my favorite thing to do.  But, it is at least some exercise - LOL.  I do love autumn - the fantastic colors that we get up here are magnificant.  We usually peak around the 11th of October, so the next two weeks should be ever increasing splashes of crimson and gold.  This is the time of the year that I love driving out to the Renaissance Festival - the drive out there goes through some of the prettiest countryside and I love seeing it change through the colors.  It will also be time to avoid the acorns.  The many oak trees that we have out there will be beaning people on the head and I usually get at least one bouncing off mine as well. 

The colors of autumn.  Can you build them
into your latest piece of artwork? 

Congratulations to my Minnesota Twins for winning the Central Division.  The Twins were the first baseball team this year to clinch their division.  Now we can look forward to the playoffs.  This area is sports crazy, and I'm fine with that.  But the publicity keeps being heavily for our football team - the Minnesota Vikings.  I've followed the Vikings for more than 30 years from the sidelines, since I'm a Denver Broncos fan.  The Vikings tease, but never pay off.  All of that fire and flash, and they have never come through to win the big one.  The Minnesota Twins, on the other hand, have won the world series three times - once in the 60's, and twice since I've lived up here.  They keep coming through for their fans in a quiet, understated, and classy way.  Go Twins! 

This is an older logo, but so appropriate!

And my cousin Emailed me last night.  My neice, who I met as a baby and again as a young child of maybe 12 or so, is getting married next year.  I've been invited to the wedding (as has my DH).  I'm not sure if I can afford this, but I'll really try.  Money is getting extremely tight, but I'll keep saving in my cash jar and hopefully things will pan out.  I would really love to be there for my cousin and her husband and to see my neice once again.