All posts tagged: Weekly photos

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1. We went to a very full, very dusty, very vintage estate sale this week.  True treasure hunting! 2. ‘Fancy work’ box which had a few reels of yarn inside. 3. I didn’t buy much but I did snag this fabulous yo-yo.  I love the colours and the wear on it.  The size is just right too. 4. At the weekend we went to Rockwoods Reservations which is fairly local to St Louis, MO.  This is our favourite trail. 5. The bridge was taken out by a fallen tree so we had to climb down and up the creek bed. 6. Another fallen tree, this one looks as if it has been here a while. 7. Natural finds along the trail. Happy Monday x  

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1. Seed pods gathered while out on a walk in the neighborhood. 2. I have spotted some beautiful mushrooms this week! 3. Some beads I have pulled out of my collection to make into bracelets. 4.  This mushroom has been nibbled but look at the gorgeous colours inside. 5. The lights for  ‘Winter Wonderland’ are being set up amid the autumn leaves at a local park. 6. These crunchy seeds are crowding in the setting sun. At last Autumn is here, chilly mornings and nights with sunny days.  Changing the clocks might take a week to get used to, but I have to say that I rather like the darker evenings, especially with soup and fresh bread for dinner. Happy Monday x

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Halloween is today, so I hope you have your costume ready and the littles are all set to go trick or treating.   My boys are a bit big for trick or treating, but they will accompany the younger kids on our street, that way they all get their Halloween night trick or treating! Here are some pictures from the last week.   1. My Mum sent me a recipe for Anzac biscuits and I have already made two batches!  This is the first lot, they are so delicious, they remind me of Hob Nobs or digestive biscuits and are perfect with a mug of tea! 2. We have spotted some interesting messages on dog walks this week, little notes, stamped into metal tags and displayed for all to appreciate. 3. The Don Colley road trip came to our local art store on Friday and it was very interesting to hear him speak and show some of his sketchbooks.  My favorite thing was that Don sketches in vintage ledger and record books, I love to …

Weekly Photos 42/52

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  1. Teeny tiny mushrooms. 2. The trees are starting to turn into their autumnal colours, this one glows yellow in the sunshine. 3. A gingko tree on our street which I processed with the Diptic app to change the colours. 4. I snapped these buildings in Alton IL, with a view to sketching them. 5. Welcome to Alton.  Thank you very much! 6. Night deposit. 7. A hill climb view. The temperatures this week have reached 90 degrees and cooled to the 40’s, so all the clothes have been worn! I think we have settled now on warm days in the 70’s and cooler nights, but who knows, next week we could have hot weather or snow! Happy Monday x  

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1. I painted some loose flowers in my atlas sketchbook. 2. This scarf was an estate sale find and it is a beauty. 3. This frilly funghi appeared one morning this week. 4. Some leaves are turning into their autumnal colours. 5. We spotted a few turtles in the woods this weekend. 6. Many tickets for the Middle School annual chill cook off. 7. These plants appeared on the trail this weekend, they are not there now, so I hope they all went to good homes and that the bucket was left! 8. My youngest has been searching for bottles in the woods all weekend and he has found some very cool bottles from yesteryear. Isn’t it amazing how they are still sitting around 40 and 50 years later?  So now we are researching our finds using the interwebs. Have a great week!  Happy Monday x  

Weekly Photos 40/52

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1. There was a gaggle of these mushrooms along the trail this week, they were hidden away in the bushes, but I spotted the bright orange and reached in for a snap. 2. Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken on route 66. 3. A Hardware store with the painted sign on the wall. 4. Pizza night was a success!  Bread dough is like magic! 5-7. Halloween decorations came out this past weekend. Have a lovely week, happy Monday x

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1. The acorns are dropping all over the woodland floor and the squirrels are gathering them for their winter larders. 2. I wonder what all these tags mean on the telegraph poles? 3. I made a chicken pie this week and I had to snap a photo of the nicely risen pastry before it flopped! 4. I played with ink and flowers this week, working on some coloring sheets. 5. Letters in a local antique store. 6. These amazing eyes were in the same shop.  They were huge and super cool! 7. It looked like it was going to rain all day but it didn’t, we got some great clouds though! 8. We found a couple of chestnut trees, but not many chestnuts for the gathering. Autumn is with us at last and I have no complaints! Happy Monday x  

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1. Blue skies and a lovely silver birch tree as I walked the dog this week. 2. The mornings are starting to become dewy and cool and the cobwebs are stunning when covered in droplets. 3. We went to an estate sale on the next street on Saturday and there were lots and lots of paperback romance novels! 4. This old very cool cash register was at the same sale, I didn’t buy the register and no romance novels came home with me either! 5. I spotted this wilting daisy in a fence. 6. Found lots of mushrooms and acorns as we wandered in the woods. 7. This bottle is a mystery from the past!  I immediately thought it may have contained soda once upon a time because of the cartoon dwarf like face on it, but at least a couple of people have said they it might well have contained alcohol.  I have looked on the Google machine but can’t find any like it. A week of sunshine, mysteries and mushrooms in the woods! …