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<span style="font-family: AGaramond; letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Warm sun stepping around trees<o:p> </o:p> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AGaramond; letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Feetless birds, round as tennis balls<o:p> </o:p> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AGaramond; letter-spacing: 1pt;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Perched facing the warming sun<o:p> </o:p> </span></span></div>
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Since it was pie that drew me back to the drawing board after some weeks of lazy-Libra somnolence [and Pinterest expeditions], I polished my fork because today is <a href="http://www.piecouncil.org/Events/NationalPieDay/"><strong>National Pie Day</strong></a><strong>. </strong>Next to Christmas, my favorite winter day involves finding the best pie around. For that we make a trek to the <strong><a href="http://www.norskenook.com/">Norske Nook</a> </strong>in Osseo, Wisconsin whenever possible for a rhubarb pie lovingly hand-made by sweet Norwegian grannies.</div>
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Closer to home Perkins has pulled <strong>CakePies </strong>out of their hat. They are just as the name implies: layers of cake and frosting sitting in a baked pie shell. They're a decadent replacement for rhubarb and likely full of one whole day's calorie allotment, but, like the holidays, once is enough.</div>
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Anxious to get home from our Arkansas adventure this Sunday sunrise was amazing as we headed north. </div>
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Iowa at dawn, these contrails reminded me of lined composition pages. Maybe I wasn't awake yet!</div>
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I've known 'urban' hospitality living in Virginia in the early '80s, but our trip south to Arkansas this month brought a whole new meaning to Southern Hospitality. Mena, Arkansas has several home town cafes the best being the Skylight and the Mena Cafe and Vickie's up the road a piece in Hatfield. Here's the best part: homemade pie in every one of them! Too many kinds to remember. Our first visit to the Mena Cafe found the place closed on Mondays. As we sadly turned back to the car the cafe's door opened and out came the owner, her husband,her two daughters and twin granddaughters, inviting us to come in anyway 'if all you want is pie. We have pie. I'll go make a pot of coffee while you decide what kind you want.' Thus began a one week love affair with 'southern' <strong>pies</strong>: chocolate cream w/meringue, chocolate peanut butter, coconut cream, cherry hand pies, and so on. And on.<br />
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Fondly remembering the friendly people of Arkansas, I link a <em>piece of pumpkin pie</em> to<strong><a href="http://abcwednesday-mrsnesbitt.blogspot.com/"> ABC Wednesday</a></strong> in honor of the letter <strong>P.</strong></div>
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We've been away in spurts in September [Philadelphia to see Dr. Erica], October [Arkansas and points north] and when we went south the trees at home were still wearing some autumn leaves. I took these on our return to our neighborhood and Owasso Lake. I could stand and watch these golden leaves drop silently right before my eyes. On the way home I saw our neighborhood's elusive little white squirrel who unfortunately doesn't need to wear a bulls eye for the local hungry hawks. </div>
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Whitie can be seen linked to Misty Dawn's <strong><a href="http://camera-critters.blogspot.com/">Camera Critters</a></strong> this week.<br />
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More vegetable antics @ <strong><a href="http://rubytuesday2.blogspot.com/">Ruby Tuesday 2</a>. </strong></div>
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<strong>Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.</strong></div>
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On misty Owasso Lake one morning geese could swim undisturbed by fishermen, only <em>shot</em> by a camera. More beauty at <strong><a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Skywatch Friday</a>.</strong><br />
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Remember the <a href="http://nonizamboniblue.blogspot.com/2012/07/its-july-in-heartland.html">old wild rose bush</a> I found this summer near the railroad tracks? Fast forward to September when I acquired an old English china plate with a fall scene including rose hips. And a sprig of hips from the said wild rose bush. The seasons circle round and round.</div>
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Erica was in grade school when she got her first cat named Gator, a big orange and white tabby. Always a keen observer, Erica named the pads on Gator's feet <em>'pork and beans'</em> because they were pink and bean shaped.</div>
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Fast forward about 25 years when I took this photo of a tired kitten enjoying the afternoon sun in the Germantown area of Philly in September. At closer inspection there were visible <em>gray</em> pork and beans. Seeing them made this empty nester not so lonely. </div>
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's observation of Midwest autumn beauty is a perfect frame for these sky shots I took this morning walking a wooded path, looking for deer <em>again </em>[visit yesterday's post]. Of course they had already eaten their fill and were napping somewhere else.</div>
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It seems the leaves have turned over night in our area or maybe it is that those that did are so vibrant against our clear blue autumn skies.The deer live among the red trees you see in the distance, below.</div>
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A contrast with the showy reds are the more shaded trees near the lake and their deliciously sherbet colored leaves. <em>You'd tell me if I've photographed poison ivy, wouldn't you? </em></div>
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1. When you leave your camera at home you insure that there will be a deer sighting; maybe even a doe <i>and </i>a fawn.<br />
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This morning I took a walk in the woods around Island Lake to soak up the clear blue sky and the trees just starting to turn, some already bright yellow and red. Hoping to catch a glimpse of the deer I know live in one area, I remembered I'd forgotten my camera. That's when I saw a doe watching me just a few yards away. Along came her fawn and I blessed them both as they just stood watching me. Above is from another summer, same lake and woods <em>with</em> lens.<br />
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Summer days are becoming just a <del>hot, muggy</del> memory. There's less daylight, fewer birds at the feeders and the lake water is warm and mossy in places. On a clear day at Island Lake I saw the sky and trees' looking at themselves in a mirror.<br />
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This area was once full of early settlers in the 1800's.
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Just around the bend as the sun was finally up, we began to see many deer .In this pic we came upon what looked like a 'good 'ole boy's club'--a meadow filled with young bucks with full racks, still covered with velvet. <br />
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They start with a soft red center and end up a deeper red below, with luscious pale yellow petals. Note the ripening okra in each photo.</div>
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Here's a view of a part of Jefferson's garden facing Charlottesville. The okra grows in the bright green rows to the far right of the gardener. <br />
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To honor Thomas Jefferson's red hair, I'm linking these okra shots to <strong><a href="http://rubytuesday2.blogspot.com/">Ruby Tuesday</a>.</strong><br />
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These two captures are along the Parkway where those mountains were always blue.<br />
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corn in July watched over by never ending clouds</div>
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In all the heat we've been enduring it is magical to have thunder clouds roll in. They are always illuminated from deep within and move swiftly from here to there. </div>
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<strong>With gratitude to so many heroes who selflessly served so we could. . .</strong> </div>
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<em>You can protect your liberties in this
world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am
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The muddy Mississippi keeps rolling along through Wabasha, Minnesota. Beyond the trees into the clouds is Wisconsin. In spite of the heavy heat and humidity it made me so happy when I spied my first wild rose of the season growing along the railroad tracks. See more lovely skies @<strong><a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Skywatch Friday.</a></strong></div>
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Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.<br /> ―Louisa May Alcott <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3810511"></a></h4>
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So, its Monday morning and I'm driving home on a busy road along Sucker Lake when I see brake lights ahead. That's nothing unusual considering the road construction and repair going on in Minnesota these days. . .<i>but </i>when we started moving again I saw a 20-something guy jump out from an old car in the oncoming lane full of other guys who all looked like they were going fishing. As their car pulled off the road I saw the first guy run up the road and cross over traffic to the center line where he tenderly picked up a <strong>turtle</strong>, escorting it the other side of the road where he placed it in the soft, green grass. While he ran back to meet his buddies, I realized that Rosemary Clooney was singing the 1952 song <i>'Tenderly'</i> on the radio.<br />
This just could be a great week ahead, for me <em>and</em> the turtle.<br />
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<span class="maintext"><span class="firstword">Not</span> a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.</span> </h4>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Francis Parkman</span></h4>
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These were the sky views over the prairie I saw on Sunday from the motorcycle. The sky was really that blue. More skies @ <strong><a href="http://skyley.blogspot.com/">Skywatch Friday</a>.</strong></div>
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