happy fall y'all!!

please enjoy

 a few snippets

 of what i have been up to....

finally, we have had cooler days and nights, here in beautiful franklin, tn....

and i feel so refreshed and alive...  

and oh so excited about some things going on in my life right now...

i have signed up to do a booth at the franklin pumpkinfest at the end of october ....something i never ever envisioned myself doing....but my friend mark porter, who crafts gorgeous barn wood frames, wooden bowls and jewelry boxes, will be doing it with me....mark already has confident experience AND the tent for the booth....i will be selling some of my art (which looks great  framed with barn wood BTW!)  and also my doily bowls and hand painted doily rocks (love them doily's!) ....

an out door event dealing with people ("people"... ew) is not something, i ever saw, my shy self doing, 

so.....i am

  flying by the seat of my pants  

 putting my trust in higher powers with this one.....

and always

and it feels o.k.

i am excited about a painting class that i have started taking at shimai, and being around other "creatives"!

i am excited about creating.

i am excited about my Creator.

i am excited about doing my gardening and power walking (which has turned into more of a jogging thing) in this cooler weather...

without sweating my ass off.

and

 i am so excited

 about a road trip to atlanta this weekend.... with my girlfriend amy ...to visit her sister elaine...

two really cool chicks.....

 yay!

road trip.

tell me what you are excited about??

♥

erin

p.s.  not all people are "ew" to me...just some.

p.s.s.  sorry about my huge watermark on my photos, but it is necessary for credit purposes...if you ever want one of my photos without it, just ask.

                       

sweet autumn clematis abloom

 this vine covered in dainty white flowers is all abloom in my backyard right now....

 a refreshing and dependable vine

 that blooms towards the end of the summer...

no matter how hot

 or dry

 or humid 

the summer has been....

which it has been!

boy howdy.

it has been.

this morn 

the humidity level was 98%!

hence the drippy windows in the morning.

and drippy gardener all day.

it takes forever for my camera lens to defog too.

erin

is ready

 for fall....

♥

angel trumpet

i grabbed my camera to capture the golden glow of this

trumpet vine blooming on my back deck.... 

 the sun had just gone down for the day....

 but the rays still hit the clouds right above my house.

 you know, that fleeting time, in the early evening 

when there is a tint of yellow

 or is it pink? 

mother natures filters...

mother nature's filters

 combined with a few textures from

the ever generous

kim klassen

check out her site .

p.s.  thank you,

 sweet smilin amy

 for fixin my puter!

phew .

all was not lost....

~ born in the springtime of our love ~

 ~ 30 years ago today ~

 happy

 happy day.

da-mama loves you!

and

is 

so

proud

of you!

happy birthday ash-shee.

mmwaaaa!