One drive sent me pictures of Sparkles today

 Sparkles was my cat, or I was her human, for 16 years.  The last 5 of those she was a 3 legged cat. She had a cancerous tumor in her right rear paw and that leg was amputated at the hip. After her recovery she was fine and a happy cat.  She could stand tall on that one hind leg. 

I painted her portrait onto needlepoint canvas and my friend Elizabeth Davies did the needlepoint.  The plan was to use it on a footstool.  

Once it was done Elizabeth decided that I needed to have some sort of design around the outside edge of the footstool.  So I chased my cat Lancelot in the snow on the porch and painted his footprints onto more canvas.  

This footstool was the result.  It has so many memories for me.  Elizabeth and Sparkles are long gone but great memories remain.

Hugs,

Nancy

I love fall colors

I guess it is autumn.  You couldn't tell it by the temperatures lately.  Highs in the high 80's last week and down into the high 70's this week.  Beautiful fall weather and the farmers are making the most of it.  Many of the fields are harvested.  

The fall decor is up in Clifford.  I love that old blue pickup!

Driving through our woods today was beautiful.  I had to stop and take a few pictures.  We don't get a lot of color in our trees in North Dakota so I try to make the most of what we do get.  

Down the road to town.  The leaves are starting to fall.

Fall color in the Cottonwoods.

The road home.

The woods had a bad time this year.  Too much wind.  Many trees were pushed over and the undergrowth is a tangle of weeds and broken trees.  I am sure the wildlife loves it. To me it looks like the Shire after the Orc's took over.   

However if I stick to pictures of the roads you can't see the destruction.

Hugs,

Nancy