November morn.....

"It's a beautiful day for it." - daily comment of Wilbur Cross

goodbye october...

farewell, october... you graced bohemia with beautiful crisp sunny days. you also handed us windswept, rainfilled ones. the trees wore the most gorgeous colors this year! thank you, most imaginative Creator, for leaves of red, orange, gold... for rainbows, purple clouds, orange pumpkins, multi-colored and crunchy leaf piles, spidery webs decorated with fat, sparkly raindrops, and blue mountain majesty with a dust of brilliant white snowfall. my soul is well-fed with such abundance of beauty... a page from the bohemian's "black" glue book... "make hast to be kind"! a glorious halloween to everyone. relish the beauty of the season and don't forget to count your blessings one by one. keep your costumed selves playful and safe! black and silver wishes with purple and orange love notes to you all...

a few holiday cards... eeeeekkk!!!!

with infinite patient impatience, the bohemian managed to upload (one. at. a. time. -is anyone else having this issue?!) a few of the halloween cards she made. hmmmm... why does this one make her think of her blogger uploading?! she grungied up (sure it's a word!!) these cards to make them seem more spooky. and a happy harvest time to all... go carve those pumpkins and dance with those scarecrows. and don't get lost in the corn maze and have to dial 911!!!! orange and purple wishes to you all!

a little Halloween sneak...

the bohemian black cat... a smiling orange bohemian pumpkin waiting for dark time to glow by candlelight... hope you're having a great Octember.... spooky sparkly wishes to you. (0nce again, the bohemian was only able to upload 3 pictures, one. at. a. time, one of which promptly went away into blogoshpere twilight zone...SIGH!!)

arrrrrrgh!

NO! the bohemian is not trying out her pirate growl for Halloween costuming! Blogger is frustrating her SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!! she has been trying to post for days now. today she was able to upload two pictures. ONE. AT. A. TIME. and then blogger refused to post any more. not even one at a time. the bohemian is so sorry to any of you popping in for a lovely post... she will keep trying. she promises! arrrrrrgh. she wants to have patience but she doesn't want to have to USE it!!! happy halloween decorating to you all!!! now she needs to go write in her gratitude journal and remind herself of how beautiful her life is and that even though blogger is the bogeyman right now, she will hold onto her JOY!!! rain-kissed wishes to you all....

grantitude fling... see previous post! ( these were some pictures in one of my unpublished drafts)

art...creativity...masks...paint...colors...time to create...artist friends...art studios... Fall...Autumn...pumpkins...garden spaces...jack'o'lanterns...Halloween...Thanksgiving...family... gorgeous dramatic weather...cozy warm house from which to view it...raindrop prisms... Jesus...my salvation...His sacrifice for me...His prayers of intercession for me...His joy=my joy... woodstove warmth...woodshed full of wood...cooking on my woodstove...watching flames dance...

a travel journal...

the bohemian is finally finishing up another travel journal. this one had captured memories from some of her shorter trips around her own country, rather than her travels abroad. snippets of the pages she prepared for her trip to S. Dakota to visit her brother. she always includes a travel alphabet... and embellishments. and stickers. and stamps... and ephemera picked up along the way... (passport stamp from Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Park, and a real butterfly, who committed suicide on the grill of her sister's convertible). winter is advancing quickly... sit by your fire, drag out the journals, and relive the memories of warmer, more adventurous days of your life. be warm and safe out there...