The Great Pumpkin!

I have moved the gorgeous geraniums I had on the front porch bench to the kitchen for over-wintering. This is their 4th year. I hung them upside down to dry out the first winter . . . and put them on a bench in the kitchen window thereafter. A little old lady I met in the Adirondacks told me to just move them inside and pinch them back . . . which is VERY effective.

Time for pumpkins!

I'm reading a book by Jim Harrison (he wrote Legends of the Fall). One sentence struck me as funny and familiar. He says his new principal wore "a PhD like a lei". I know several folks like that. They can't get over their credentialing. Thank goodness none of MY friends are like that (truly). Only friends of friends, I guess, which I seem to avoid like the plague.

I've spent a great deal of the afternoon looking for pictures of bluebirds, cardinals, tufted titmice, etc., so I will have something to "go by" for the "big-footed" birds I'm creating. I "rough carved" the bird shapes from styrofoam last night. I have big plans. I'm going to do 5. Marlaine Verhelst is mentoring this process online. I've taken an online class with her before. She's scheduled to conduct a class at the Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville next year. It may not make, though.