I like Thankful Thursday

More Autumn is happening around here.
I like the glow that comes with the combo of the red with green and the sun...great mix!

Maples near the hospital car park.

and in the garden

The Acer by the back fence (magnolia in front right)

Deep colours in the bush by the back door. Which I thought was a blueberry bush, but the Gardener says no.

Indoors, I am waking up the Amaryllis. They are ready for it. Even stored in the shed since the spring, they all have a little growth.

This photo was taken on the 31st October.

And here - spot the difference from 1 week! Actually, the second one in had grown inches within a couple days! I think the 2 on the left are still thinking about it.

I love Amaryllis! You probably recall the regular reports last year! I woke the first one up in October last year - then bought some more. This year I waited til November, in hopes that they flower together near Christmas.

This past weekend was also the weekend we packed up the Christmas Shoe boxes to send for Operation Christmas Child.

The Thoughtful Man and I enjoy finding bits and pieces to put in our boxes. We like to select special specific things beyond toiletries and school supplies. I like to imagine who might receive the box. I heard about a girl who had recently began sewing for family and friends.

The box she got had sewing supplies 😁! So I thought i can do that! So the older girl has sewing things.

The younger girl has sharing things...fun stuff to do with friends or a sister.

The younger boy had Plasticine for making and games to do with friends.

The older boy, I am thinking likes building and music,like my son did. So his special things are a recorder and a small Meccano set. I hope they all enjoy them!

And then, here are all the boxes done by the people in our small church.

There is Pat, our organiser, trying to stay out of the photo!

How exciting to see that 30 children can have the joy of opening a box and discovering the treasures inside!
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I like Thankful Thursday

I like measurable achievements...

all the mountain houses, plus a few extra that it needed, are cut out. Now they also have been fused. (not shown) I am working on the next section.

I like chickadees. So this was a wonderful gift my Mom sent recently.

According to my bird book, they are quite like coal tits over here, but I have not seen one. I think they are my favourite bird...but, then there are robins and blackbirds and ...

I like trees!
These trees were in the car park of the community centre. On Saturday we had our sewing group. I had to stop to take a photo!

And I like walking in the woods.
We went to a nearby park with the friends from church, including a few of our dogs. Lily Hill Park. The park used to be part of the grounds for a mansion which is now offices.
They do a lot with the fallen trees including the longest picnic table in England.

picnic photos from a few years ago.


So we had our picnic. and then went on the walk.
I love the patterns you can see on trees.
twisted
the little bit of limb left looks like a water tap you can turn on!
The bark is amazing.
     
This clearing was a fun place.

a portal

in the distance - steps cut into a tree stump.

So a lovely weekend! Holly, is usually a grump with other dogs. Our friends have a puppy, Charlie, who is about 8 mo. old. We didn't know if she would snarl at him or what, but she decided he was a good friend! phew! It was so fun to see her playing with him. It would have been good to let them both off the lead to play, but he hasn't learned not to run off yet. (Sorry, I didn't get a photo.) The other dog, Lily, is quite old. Holly only grouched her when she though Lily was going to come get our sausages. Sausages is her Favourite! After the picnic, she had no problem with her.

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A couple of the trees at the top of the hill above the actual North Lake of South Hill Park

 

You can see from the trees the past few days that some of them have already been seriously 'trimmed'. The large branches that reached way out and nearly touched the ground at the end have been taken off. Probably 'health and safety'. But I guess within reason...I have seen kids climbing up and swinging on them. and the branch at the trunk is usually around the size of a 'normal' tree. So it could do someone some damage.

 

I do know that some thing more about these trees will get into my work someday.

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Two older trees in North Lake - one is a Cedar of Lebanon

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Cedar of Lebanon

Another one of the trees in North Lake

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Cedar of Lebanon

One of the old trees in North Lake

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Cedar of Lebanon

One of the ones in North Lake

in yorkshire

for a break and a 93rd birthday. See you at the weekend.

I am leaving you a few trees round my neighbourhood to give you something to look at!

Wellingtonia's on Frobisher

This is particularly for Irene who 'needs' to see me post! ;-) but really, I took these photos because I was trying to document them in some way before they, too, are gone. I marked them on the first map of my neighbourhood.