Autumn Splendor ~ A Tag ~ Two Awards!

If you read my blog a few weeks ago you saw a post I wrote about the park I walk in each morning with friends. The trees were still very green then, but as you can see from these photos autumn splendor has arrived and painted the leaves shades of orange, red and gold.

There was a little mist in the air this morning, but the colors were still brightly ablaze!

The squirrels were busy collecting acorns for the winter and the birds were all chirpy and happy in the trees as they took a rest.

It really is a beautiful time of the year -- my favorite season which seems to flee all too quickly!

If you look closely below (or click on and enlarge the photo) you can see a flock of geese in the sky!

My area of Brooklyn, NY is along the eastern seaboard migration route, and we see the geese both spring and fall as they migrate north and south with the seasons.

They will rest on the grass and make quite a chatter as they look for their breakfast.

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Camille @ Rtemis, a very nice blogger I met through the Daring Bakers monthly challenge, and who makes the most delicious baked goods, tagged me to tell "Seven Random Things" about myself. I've done this tag twice before so it took me a few days to come up with some new things -- hope you aren't bored by them!

1. I have some house plants that I've had over 35 years -- no kidding! I bought a few to decorate my window sill when I lived in a dorm in nursing school, and they are still alive and well!

2. I'm a thyroid cancer survivor, so I urge everyone to not neglect neck lumps or swellings or irregular thyroid function blood tests. It is one of the most curable cancers if found early!

3. I love "talk" radio and usually that is what I listen to when I drive.

4. I dream a lot when I sleep, and remember a lot of them, but luckily I rarely have a nightmare.

5. I'd love to buy a house in Denver, CO so I'd be close to my future grandchild as he grows up....dreams .... dreams!

6. I love to cook, and I have at least a hundred cookbooks! I read and enjoy them like novels.

7. I've visited 30 states, and hope to be able to one day say I've seen all 50!

Here are the rules for tagging:

Link to my blog (tagger) on your blog.
Give seven facts about yourself.
Tag another seven blogs by leaving a comment on their blog and letting them know they were tagged and listing them (and their blogs) on your blog.

I know this tag has been passed around quite a few times so does anyone want to do it again? Please let me know if you do!

In the meantime, I'm tagging Kathy @ Casa Dolce Casa and

Michele @ My Italian Grandmother!

Joanne @ My Little Cottage In The Making gave me this beautiful "Lovely Lady"award that she made herself!

Joanne said that this award doesn't have any real rules to follow other then to pass it on to some of the lovely ladies you have come across. Thanks Joanne! Joanne is one of the most prolific bloggers that I know, and she always has wonderful posts about such a variety of subjects, great decorating and craft ideas, plus she is a suburb and talented cake artist!

I've met so many lovely ladies through blogging that it is hard to choose just a few, but I'd like to give this award to a few lovely ladies that I've met recently...... Nola @ Alamo North, Pammiejo @ Pammiejo and Friends, Rhonda @ Rhonda Hartis Smith, and Laura @ Shorehouse Chic.

Please visit all these lovely ladies blogs if you don't already and you will be glad you did!


Next, Nola @ Alamo North gave me the Marie Antoinette award! Nola lives in, and writes about her life in Texas, and she is a wonderfully warm lovely lady with lots of good humor that will make you smile!

Here are the Rules for the Award:

1. Please put the logo on your blog

2. Place a link to the person from whom you received the award

3. Nominate at least 7 or more blogs

4. Put the links of those blogs on your blog

5. Leave a message on their blogs to tell them

So please accept this special award-- Nanatrish @ Nana's Living The Dream, Lavinia @ The Birdbath Chronicles, Steviewren @ a little birdie told me so, Pamela Terry @ From The House of Edward, Melanie @ JellyBeanangel,Donna @ An Enchanted Cottage, Tara @ Days Missed On A Hammock, and Diane@ A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!

Enjoy, and please pass it on!

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love" ~ Goethe