Happy Halloween

Sorry I've been absent. Real life been taking up all my time but I'm back and trying to reestablish regular posting. So it's the day when we tell our kids it's okay to take candy from strangers. Kind of fell apart on the Halloween countdown but this was the best pumpkin display I saw on the internets. Pumpkin fairy house via Old Moss Woman.



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Pumpkin carving party

Haven't posted because limited internet access for the last week. So here's three photos for Halloween to make up for my absence. From my friend Steve Toutant, the results of the party.





One of my favorites:



And another:



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Halloween countdown

My social nets are usually obsessed with Halloween photos by now but not so much this year. Not sure why, but loved this little Halloween Fairy.



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I've never been to the far East

Yet another place to visit on the bucket list. Definitely click the link to see more photos of these amazing 1,200 Whimsical Stone Statues at Buddhist Temple in Kyoto. [Thanny Young photo.]



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Scenes from my past: Part nineteen

Sycamore drive in restaurant in Bethel, CT -- with car hops -- probably 1960s. It's still in operation.



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A portal to another place

No idea if this is real, but if it is, I want to go there. It looks to me like if you walk up those stairs you might end up in a beautiful fairy tale with a happy ending. [image via]



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Still on my bucket list

In fact, a ride on the GoodYear blimp is still number one on my bucket list. Especially this one.



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Painted Night Sky

Thought at first this was a photoshop but it turns out, this really happened:

One more image from a magical 30 minute window on the evening of October 8th 2013 when the Aurora Borealis painted the skies over Foster's Bridge in Cabot, Vermont with brilliant reds and greens. [Jon Vose photo]

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Oh the places I'd go

Another place I want to go before I die. An old street in Prague.



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To everything, there is a season

The last of the summer visitors. A luna moth somewhere in the south.



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Full circle

Stage one. Stage two. Metamorphosis in Maeve's magic garden.

Didn't mean to disappear. Real life has been taking up all my time. Been another long day but here's something for you. View from my friend's old cottage overlooking the basin somewhere in Scotland.



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