My Bit of Earth: Shutterbug

Pretty Porter

Got this pretty picture of Porter last week in the field next to the Burrow garden. As I've said before, she doesn't often agree to be photographed, so whenever I get a good one I have to share.

If you look closely at her chin, you can just see a glimpse of gray. After years of keeping her youthful face, she's finally beginning to show her age.

If you look closely on the right of her neck, you can just see a glimpse of her new, red collar that we got from one of our Welsh-List friends. Thanks again, JoAnn!

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Snowy Fields, Snowy Dogs

After a few days of breath-stealingly cold weather, we finally ventured out this afternoon, because, you know, dogs must be walked.

The wind was absolutely bitter, but the colors were beautiful. This is one of the fields we walked through (in full color, half color, and black and white).

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Apparently, there's some sort of holiday fun going on in Lawrence just about every day from now 'till Christmas. Apparently, I've lived here four holiday seasons and have been missing out on all kinds of festivities.

No more! This year I've got my handy-dandy "Holiday Happenings" book and I'm ready to be holly and jolly!

This evening I got off to a good start at the "Festival of Trees". I think this kind of thing is done in other places, but it's pretty cool nonetheless. Businesses, scout troops, and etc. all decorate trees and auction them off to the highest bidder. The proceeds of both the auction and the small charge to get in and see the trees all go to charity.

There was some of what you would expect, of course--a "Big 12" themed tree, an "Around the World" tree--but some were darned creative:

A few more pictures are here.

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A Frosty Morning

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Fall Colors

As you may have noticed, I'm a one blog woman these days--I just can't keep two or three updated well. That means some of the random pictures that would have ended up on "That Camera Lady" are now just going to get tossed up here.

Like these two. The one on the left is of a tree down the block from me. The other is an Amish cockscomb flower that sprouted up in my garden from the seeds I planted early last Spring.

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