A Garden of Virtues

365 bjd - fading light , originally uploaded by blacsylc . We watched it get dark. I pretty much can't get home in time anymore to do an outdoor pic. >:( I have been overwhelmed ... I am still doing the project every day, but I won't upload every day, and if my pic is bad I'm not advertising it... So that was yesterday's. Here's today's... The cockatielier.

bjd pic - Wish book , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Today we got the wish book ... er ... American Girl catalog in the mail today. Leslie is browsing ...

bjd pic daily - so many choices , originally uploaded by blacsylc . We got four new wigs in the mail today. I love the random pack I got -- it's in Halloween colors. We are still waiting on one more fancy wig though.

  Henry: Zzzzz. Leslie: Hey! What are you doing in my room? Henry: .   Leslie: Hey, kitty, will you let me pet you? Henry: I'm not sure about that.   Leslie: Nice kitty. Henry: Er.   Leslie: There we go. Nice kitty. Henry: {twitches}   Henry: Mommy, is he going to hurt me?   Leslie: See, this isn't so bad. Henry: No, it isn't.   Henry: Purrrr...   Henry: Zzzzz..

bjd pic daily - Leslie and Henry hang out , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Today I made a short photostory... to follow this post.

bjd pic - some days we are uninspired , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Or we think we are uninspired. We think and dream and write nothing down, and do nothing, and it seems like things are just getting more undone, and the dishes pile up. And maybe tomorrow we will start living the dream.

bjd pic daily - tomorrow morning's coffee , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie is helping me make tomorrow morning's coffee. He knows how bad I will need it.

bjd pic daily - October reverie , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie glimpses the last rays of the sun, which sinks ever so early.

bjd pic- the beginning of something , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Uh oh, Leslie has powered up his microscope and is figuring it all out. I can't wait to see what he decides to do. I have a feeling he is going to have me buying antique slides on eBay. I don't know where I found the courage to plug in and turn on this antique microscope. It's one of those old timey plugs. I don't know if I am more surprised that it works, or that I am not electrocuted. The things I do for him.

bjd pic - The biologist , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie learns the ins and outs of his new microscope.

bjd pic - Halloween tree , originally uploaded by blacsylc . We finished the Halloween tree today! Complete with the bittersweet garland, bows, and black and orange cookie ornaments.

bjd pic - morning meditation , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie sits for a moment by a stone on our morning walk. Location: Canyon of the Eagles

bjd pic daily - The paddleboats , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie explores the abandoned paddleboats in the woods by the lake. Location: County Road 134,Burnet,United States

1 bjd pic daily - the biologist , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie finds a bleached backbone on the lake shore. We are near an eagle's nest. Location: Ellen Halbert Dr,Burnet,United States

1 bjd pic daily - Leslie and the black cat , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Is it unlucky to encounter a sleek black cat on a fine October day? Unfortunately I did not make it through the outing without a rooster "encounter." Yet he leaves the cat alone, I don't understand.

1 bjd pic daily - kaffeeklatsch , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie had the coffee brewing-- we had a kaffeeklatsch when I got home. Hazelnut coffee with crunchy strawberry cookies for dipping. Happy Tuesday!

1 bjd pic daily - capriciousness and refusal , originally uploaded by blacsylc . A purple carnation implies capriciousness, and a striped one indicates refusal, according to the language of the flowers. But to my thinking, both things can make for an interesting relationship.

1 bjd pic daily - in the barn , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie hangs out in the old barn on a crisp fall day.

1 bjd pic daily - finishing the cookies , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie finishes baking the ornaments. All the moisture has to come out of the cookies before we make them ornaments.

1 bjd pic daily - Baking night , originally uploaded by blacsylc . Leslie and I made cookies, but they aren't to eat. They will be ornaments for our Halloween tree when we are done with them.