Fall is Here

The leaves are turning pretty colors, and it's time to think about going back to Virginia.  My summer projects this year have been moving along, and this week I've been working on the Birds of A Feather quilt project, and have most of the blocks finished.  I am enjoying the hand work:

Here is the layout of the quilt so far:

This summer has been beautiful, and I am posting this from the Manistee Library where I have a wifi connection.  There is a book "Spool of Thread" here that reflects my thoughts on fall and all the beauty of the season.  The following is from a writing called Look, Look Around You, by Rogene Jados. She writes:

No other time of the year is as lovely or such a contrast to the stark beauty of winter. Let's enjoy the beauty of fall, collect lovely pictures and store them in a drawer in our mind to be pulled out whenever we need them.

What a blessing we have in using our mind as a storeroom for memories of things past and to hold pictures once again in our hands:   Autumn. . . God's lovely lavishly wrapped early Christmas present . . . enjoy!

Here's an early Christmas present for you - a sunset picture of Lake Michigan, taken from the Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course:

The little dotted line in the dark part (land) are actually a group of Adirondack chairs all in a row, for people to sit on the lawn of their clubhouse and view the sunset. We took this photo from the dining room porch, and dinner was great too!  Part of our 50th wedding anniversary celebration year.  We didn't think it would be a pretty sunset because it was so cloudy, but when the sun was low, it lit up the whole sky, and you see the results!  Pure Michigan!