Tonights Ohio Sunset...
Today is my Son's 34th Birthday...Tomorrow my grandson Jake, will be 14...

I realized reading blogs this morning, that this is the weekend before Thanksgiving...By the next Friday Facts Day, it will all be over..And Christmas will only be around 4 weeks away...

I'm thakful for my family...And Love them all...

I'm thankful for my flowers..that lay sleeping in my flower bed,friends that will be back to see me, again and again.



I'm thankful for my Camera, and the gift of A desire to use it...







I'm thankful for the people, who came to my door, called River Rat,this past year...and became my friends and neighbors...They are now, like windows and doors to my everyday thoughts..Each one anouther house in a village of bloggers...I U ALL.....






I'm also thankful Hubby's cat didn't have Kittens this year!!!!They stay away from me, and we truly understand each other....Especially our grey cat Shadow...the female. She's 10 years old and thinks i live in HER house...



God forgive me, but i do not like cats...

I think Amish kids are the cutest little kids...Especially the boys..
I took these pic's back last winter...and spring..I tried taking more, and every time i took a picture i got home and the buggy was always there but no people...One picture we took 2 shots of, was a Amish girl standing at a screen door, around 16 or so....and she was looking straight at hubby, smiling..like she wanted her picture taken...but we got home and she wasn't there..then it happened when we went by a man and his son..they smiled..was right beside me..but the horse came out in the pic, no people...anouther time a old man with a super long white beard looked straight at me....but i got the buggy, no person..it was starting to bug me cause i know in my heart that they don't like their pic's taken....a few weeks ago we was driving through Nashville Ohio, there was a lot of Amish there, they all put their hands over their faces when we passsed...i don't know if they saw my camera and thought it was a gun.. afraid because of the Amish school shootings a short time back, or if it was just not wanting their picture taken..but hubby noticed it too. at least 5 different buggies covered their faces when we went by & I had the camera ready, inside my car......Today I told hubby, i'm not gong to try to get any Amish pictures...and would you believe that we saw 3 times as many buggies( at the same town ) and they all waved and smiled at us...weird.I didn't even attempt to try to get a picture, not a one..
these are pictures I took late winter and spring of 2006..

Why does it seem ( It always seems)
that once Autumn bids Herself goodbye....
Old Man Winter makes, His debut......
(She don't hang around that guy.)

He strips the trees of their leaves
till their as naked as can be...
But what He don't know is that I
see beauty in A naked tree....

I love the way their branches seem
to be reaching out to the winter wind
and I love the sight ( it brings delight)
when a light white snow has outlined them...

So when the days are dark and cold
I don't think about bad things
I look at this as a hug & kiss
that Old Man Winter brings...

Today was a rain day..so no great pic's.....



I did find some tree's that are eating signs down by Blue Rock State park....They seem to be munching on them......









these was all on the same gravel road outside of Blue rock State park...( I'm anxious to see what else i find now that the leaves are gone)