The other side of the coin

you

know that

old

cliche

"it's always greener or the other side"

well,

here's

the deal.

My friend,

Sandy,

as in

"Sandy with the eternal lemon tree"

(from an earlier blog)

moved

with

her hubby

from Connecticut

to

SLO.

She

loves

that

"it is always sunny in SLO"

and

she loves

her

lemon tree.

She

did

not love

raking

the

fallen

beautifully

colored

Autumn leaves

from

her Connecticut

trees.

I

would

love

to rake

Autumn leaves,

I think.

Sandy read my blog

and sent

a couple

of pictures

of the trees

from

her

CT

home

beautiful, huh?

Nottie and her Ragamuffins

IMG_0023, originally uploaded by TTT with Toulouse.

Nope, not clipped yet!
.......but soon, very soon

looking for Autumn

Even though

I

am

a

California girl

from

September

to

December

I

pretend

that

we

(San Luis Obispo)

have

a

cool

crisp

colorful

mid-western-ish

New Enland-ish

Autumn!

our

house

becomes

alive

with

pumpkins

and owls

and silly

little

pumpkin

critters

that hide

among

the

fallen

(well, silk)

leaves


I

bake

pumpkin cookies

and

pumpkin muffins

butternut squash with honey

and

apple crisps

hearty soups

and

stews

To make it really

feel

even

more

Autumnal

(is that a word?)

Toulouse

and

I decide

to go

leaf

peeking

Once

the wine grapes

are

harvested

the

leaves

begin

to

turn

beautiful colors

That's the view

from

Edna Valley Vineyards

looking

towards

Islay Hill

:(

not too

many

colors yet

Some of

the leaves

are

changing

and some leaves

are not

here

and

there

Toulouse

and

I

will head out again

soon

to find

more

colors

of

Autumn

In the meantime,

I

am

off

to

eat

a

pumpkin oatmeal

cookie

with a cup

of

hot

mulled

cider