Autumnal Hues

When the sunlight shifts, the days shorten, and the evenings cool, there is a change in my palette as well.

From the colors I pick to wear, to the colors I make into jewelry. Subconsciously,  my choices turn to the hues of autumn.

The golden sunflowers bow and brown.

 

And I reach for beads of the same glowing ochres.

 

A lovely rosehip = an antique vegetable ivory bead.

 It's the textures and patterns in nature...

 

...reflected in vintage heirlloms.

Autumn, I always feel that it's God showing us all the glory of his magnificent palette.

I hope you're enjoying this beautiful time of year!

New jewelry soon, at Age Before Beauty.

Growing, Growing, Gone.

I love my vegetable garden. It's certainly a yearly learning process. After 4 years I have learned the following:

Stink bugs stink.

Watering does make a difference.

Do not put metal supports around zucchini.

I cannot grow cucumbers.

And chipmunks are a pox upon me.

But this year has been pretty good. We had wonderful sugar snap peas and lots of peppers. We would have enjoyed a bountiful tomato crop had the aforementioned rodent not single paw-edly removed my heirloom fruits one by one. 

Every year I plant sunflower seeds. And every year the seeds are removed by probably the same tomato-mauling chippy. 

But this year he must have been distracted by the bumper tomato crop and missed a few. Three grew and one was enormous! 

 

The best part? One morning this beautiful butterfly came to visit. 

The butterfly flew away for a moment when a slightly larger visitor took center stage.

 Things definitely grew in the garden. As well as elsewhere. 

It's the first day of school today... growing up!