Mother Nature Colors New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine!

Mother Nature provided us with some of her work, so we will let her pictures do the talking!

Albany, NY in the distance

Election action

6,556 flags for U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq; not including l.4 mill. civilians!

Acadia National Park, Maine

Lobster cooking outside a restaurant

John Rockefeller Jr. started building carriage roads and bridges in Acadia, so people could ride safely in horse drawn buggies instead of on the crowded roadway. It took 27 years to complete, covers 45 miles. Great for bicycling!

 

We came upon this town of scarecrows in the dark one eve and it was eerie, we weren't certain what they were. Fun custom!

Janet went to a Quilt show given by a group called the Nimble Thimbles. The show was in the Congregational Church in a small town of Pennsylvania. Beautiful displays of art!

Yo yos

 

 

ENDLESS TAKE

 

Look once to see that quilts converse----

In visual rhymes that steal the breath,

Speaking to every possible sense,

Awesome art, beauty immense.

 

Look twice to hear them whisper stories-------

Of love and laughs and deepest dreams,

Of moments past, milestones shared,

Personal lessons, and journeys dared.

 

Look over and over and over again......

To discover life between the threads,

Making us warm and feeling secure,

Reasons for quilts will always endure.

 

Written for "Reason for Quilts" by Edyta Sitar

 

Our kids' Grandmothers didn't quilt (as far as I know), but they did crochet blankets for about all of us! I still hear the kids mention just how much they mean to them today! Thank you Grandma Eaton and Grammie Peck, and Grandma Grupe! Lots of work of love for their families.

 

 

Thoughts by Ty... Took a walk one eve as the sun was setting in a hardwood forest and the beauty was stunning. I started thinking about this being our anniversary month and how we had honeymooned in Virginia. I am so thankful for my bride. I also considered that I was about to enter the winter of my life and beauty of the fall here in Vermont.  It  seemed comforting some how that nature could give one such a splendid send off!


Thoughts from Janet from the book she has read "Sisters of The Earth" by Lorraine Anderson
"Nancy Newhall was the first curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art and wrote incisively about the inner lives of prominent photographers, but she also collaborated with Ansel Adams to produce what Justice William O. Douglas called "one of the greatest statements in the history of conservation." This is the "American Earth".The following is a partial excerpt from 6th chapter in the book called Dynamics:"

How little, from the resources unrenewable by Man,
cost the things of greatest value----
wild beauty, peace, health, and love,
music and all testaments of spirit!
How simple our basic needs------
a little food, sun, air, water, shelter, warmth, and sleep!
How lightly might this earth bear Man forever!


"Barbara Deming described herself as a radical pacifist lesbian feminist and sought to embrace all life with care and concern. She was inspired by reading Gandhi to become active in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the l960s and eventually published six books on issues of women and peace, feminism and nonviolence. One of her poems, We Are All Part of One Another......as an absolute necessity for the continuation of life on earth."

Spirit of Love

Save this earth!
The earth is perishing.
This is a prayer I sing.

Spirit that hears each one of us,
Hears all that is----
Inspire us now!
Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat,
And also there within the flowered ground beneath our feet,
And----teach us to listen!
We can hear it in water, in wood, and even in stone.
We are earth of this earth, and we are bone of its bone.
This is a prayer I sing, for we have forgotten this and so
The earth is perishing.



Funny: You know you are living in a small space when you open a kitchen cabinet and a 9x12 chocolate sheet cake flies out and lands upside down on the bed........oh Janet was still in bed too!