Junking in Georgia

Posting from the Mountains

It is so pretty here in Western North Carolina toward the end of the month of October.  The weather is  perfect cool nights and warm sunshine filled days.  This is a nice view too bad the power lines are there but electricity is needed.  My friends and I have shopped, beaded and drank some great wine.  We have covered some varied conversational topics ... ghosts to health care.  Today we ate lunch in the outdoor wine garden at the Old Edwards Inn in Highlands, NC.  This has been a great Monday in the mountains hope your week is off to a good start.

Company Coming

On my way to the Atlanta airport this morning to pick up my friend coming in from Chicago.  We are heading to the mountain house Saturday morning to look at leaves and relax.  It is going to be chilly in the Mountains.. time for a fire and getting cozy.  I will be away until the end of next week enjoying the fall. It is a beautiful area and I can't wait to share it with my good friend.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend full of some fun and fall color ........ take care

Cashiers, North Carolina welcomes Fall 2009

Welcoming visitors on the town green

area rocky top sports colorful fringe

these red leaves came from here:

More Halloween Die cuts

remember to look up

winter means more darkness and the desire for more light... no fan of winter I miss the light .. if we have clear weather here in the winter it means it is cold so it is a trade off you get the light but you pay for it..a decorating tip I ran across suggests many more light providers in a room than you strictly need.. and light should come from not just above..vintage lamps are interesting and usually should be rewired.. plugging an old lamp in is an act of faith.. not such a great idea...one of my dream finds would be a vintage arts and crafts hammered copper lamp with a real mica shade....reproductions are out there that will give you the look.. a real one is out of my price range I think

Sunday, Monday

pumpkin person

Posting from the Mountains to report on fall color.  It is getting good at 3,000 ft. and higher.  A drive along some of the higher parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway would have been beautiful with some sunshine. There was none.  The lower elevations should show more color this coming week.  If you are in the Southeast and want to make a fall get away to see the changing leaves next weekend should be perfect.. come on sun and clear weather.  Clouds this morning are said to be clearing according to the local weatherman.  My camera is ready if we get some good light on country side.  I have the week ahead to get ready for a friend's visit .. she arrives from Chicago on Friday.  We will join another friend in NC for a fall festival of our own.. beading, shopping, looking at fall color, some wine .. it is great to be at the time of our lives to enjoy time together... children off on their own, husbands not yet retired..yes, I will say it  LIFE IS GOOD!

Happy Birthday Edgar Allen

From the always interesting blog the haunted lamp an antique cigar label honoring writer Edgar Allen Poe

A Friday in the Fall

Weather in the Atlanta area is either beautiful or gray.  Yesterday was one of the beautiful ones clear with lots of sun.. rain is moving in tonight.  Here comes gray.  Today is going to be the best day of the next three as far as sunshine goes.  My son and husband are playing Father and Son golf together today.  My son's stated goal is to not loose as many balls as he did the last time he played.  Our son was away for ten years.. undergraduate and Law School at University of Kansas in Lawrence KS working in Lake Charles LA and Anchorage Alaska..it is wonderful to have him here in Atlanta to come out and have dinner and play golf with his Dad just to see him more often.  After the golf, we head for the Mountain house.  There is a craft fair to check out along with seeing how the color on the mountain side is progressing.  October weekends are special a parting gift of warmth and color from nature I hope you enjoy this one ..................

In Living Color

Last weekend I was able to do something I've never done.  After some research on line to identify the bitter sweet plant, I went out found it growing wild and cut my own for fall decorating.  In the past I have paid dearly for a small bunch of bitter sweet at road side stands ...those that appear this time of year loaded with pumpkins.  It was fun to hunt and to find the vine with its bright red berries.. I stripped it of its leaves leaving the brown vine and the red berries.  I do not bring bitter sweet into the house since its berries are toxic to humans ..and perhaps to cats.. my own cats would be all over it.   So the entrance to my house is now decorated with mums, bitter sweet and pumpkins.  I haven't put up any Halloween decorations but I am starting to see some here and there as the month grows older more and more spooky stuff will start to appear.  It is a great time of year.

I'm considering ending Junking in Georgia.. there are millions of blogs on line.  I've enjoyed doing the blog and the odd rant here and there ... it's something I been mulling over.. if it is meaningful and if so how.. it is great to write   good for the old mind.. but is it time to move on?  Some of the blogs I have read for a long time have changed or have lost some of their sparkle and much as I hate to say it have frankly become rather boring...yesterday by chance I ran across one I'd never seen before... a blogger of fundamentalist mind set who says  on her blog that she is spending these final end times of the world blogging ... this made me really want to ask her if this is really the final days why are you wasting your time blogging?

Risks

High Mountains  Aspens   Colorado

The first H1N1 vaccines are here.  Georgia got the first of ours yesterday.  There is a lot of concern about both the H1N1 flu and the vaccine.   After a round of awful flu last year, I have all ready had the basic or non-H1N1 flu shot this year.  I have no intention of enjoying a week or more of pure misery this year.  While the H1N1 vaccine is new, it is based on the basic flu vaccine that has been around for a long time and it has been given to thousands of people with no adverse side effects.   Everyone will have to make up their own mind as to the risk involved... some will take the vaccine others will not no matter what happens.  The world is much better prepared to face this problem than it was in 1917 when another form of H1N1 flu killed more people than World War I .  I only hope that people will make up their minds based on real information not fear and rumor.