Quite suddenly!

Quite suddenly.....

 ...the garden has taken on a beautiful glow...

...and there are more tomatoes ripening on the vine than one could possibly eat in one day...

...and nature is beginning to take on her seasonal autumn colors - yellowy greens, vintage whites, rusty reds and golden yellows - and everything seems to be a bit tattered and torn...

...and it compliments so many of the pretty colonial homes in our town just perfectly!

...and firewood is seriously and suddenly on a lot of people's mind!!!

 Quite suddenly, wood piles are springing up everywhere (but this isn't our wood pile. These lucky people are farther along with the job than we are... =/)

 ...and I think that the wood pile buzz is because some mornings are so chill...
 

...that it seems to settle into the very bones of our homes...

...and, since I'm too stubborn to turn up the heat, yet.... (just not quite yet, please...)

...I'm having to put on ridiculous amounts of layers....

(and I'm still cold!!!)

...and it makes me want to bake and fill the house with warm and cozy smells.... and tastes, too, of course!!! =]

(Not to mention I want to cuddle up next to the stove!)

...and we're back into the routine of early school mornings and homework and backpacks and lunch bags and yellow pencils...

...and, quite suddenly...

I'm thinking that I need to leave for my ritual evening vespers' walk drastically earlier than I've been used to this summer because... 

... I'm seeing a lot more deer out in the meadows...

(which I like! but...)

...by the time I stumble down the last stretch of road in the dark, this is what the pond across the street from us looks like...

xo

Add mine to the pile of posts about it!

Bloooooooo..ooo Mooooooooo..... =]

I have got it STUCK in my head!!!! =/

(I'm almost cross-eyed from it!)

So, if you can't fight...er, IT! One might as well enjoy it!

I like the old timey versions of this song, the best.

Take your pick:

or how about this one with the legendary Coleman Hawkins on trumpet?:

or, how about a steamy, sultry, moody moon?

and, who could resist this one... =D

as a matter of fact, I found this whole youtube channel of different versions of the song.

I've been listening to it ALL MORNING LONG!

(chuckle, chuckle, nicker, nicker, nicker, guffaw..... =D It's driving the boys NUTS! =])

My attempts at photographing it, last night were pitiful, though.

The blue moon was Hubungousable as it, dressed in a gorgeous orangey/pink, rose over the horizon. I grabbed my camera and tripod and Tom drove me up to the top of our hill but... where did it go??????

For thirty minutes it glowed from behind a cloud that must have been three miles long - and not moving at all. I sat and waited, a warm breeze blowing through the dry hayfield and crickets all around. I was almost asleep (our family was hitting desperate tiredness levels from the end of the first week of school mornings.) When it started to break through, it was still lovely. I just didn't capture that gasp of 'love at first sight' that we had all experienced an hour earlier.

I knew that it would be a rare sight - unusual and unique - but I wasn't prepared for how utterly charming and enchanting it would be!

So off I got to whistle 'blue mooooo....' while I do the dishes, garden a little, clean the kids' room, go grocery shopping, make dinner......

....doody, doody, dooooo.....

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