Shots for September

Fall is setting in and winter will follow just as surely as the birds are beginning to flock and devour the fruit of the mountain ash.


The sunny yellow flowers of the pond lilies are still showing their warmth and will continue to decorate the pond until the frost finally skims the top with ice.


The same frost will take its toll on the remaining brown eyed susans and the colourful painted daisies of the garden.


But once in a blue moon, and the moon is hanging high into the morning sky...


.. .a fawn is spotted on the lawn still showing the marks of youth...


...before dashing away after its twin through the remaining fall flowers.


It is not the first the fawns have been spotted since spring, but it is the first time that I could quickly get to the camera and grab a couple of shots through the window.

Updates as promised

News regarding the Casemates or Artisan Shops at the Garrison District in Fredericton:

I joined a casemate on Monday with 2 potters and a surface designer, all students from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. Open daily through 20 September.

Received notice on Monday night that I will be doing a week of Demonstrations for the New Brunswick Crafts Council casemate, Productive Hands, on August 24,26 & 28 from 11:30 - 1:30.

More Critter action:

A deer was browsing the elder bushes that edge the lawn yesterday, got some shots, but I do need to oil the hinges on the living room door.


And finally a jewelry shot:

Badly photographed as it was taken in haste but this is the Nephrite Jade piece that was chosen nonetheless for the gift given to the "Irish girl" at last Friday's retirement party.

I received another note from "P" on Monday morning to let me know that the recipient "loved the necklace."

And now for something completely random:

I am missing a particular breed of an espresso addicted personality quite sharply today. Oh well...
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Deer Picnic

The joy of living in the woods is that we moved in with the critters. As in the spring, when the beans get mowed by rabbits, and the roses are pruned by the deer and the Asiatic lilies are lunch for both, the fall brings its own activity.

As of late we have had the chipmunks storing as much seed as possible. The beach nuts have been stripped from all the beach trees by the jays (blue & grey) and squirrels (red & grey) and any sunflower seeds that have been put out in the feeders have disappeared in mere minutes with jays, chickadees, squirrels and the chipmunks.

Like the country critters, we have been stockpiling for the winter too. I always like to get a big bag of mixed windfall apples which are very cheap and great for the freezer. The apple peelings offer another treat for the denizens of the forest as the cores are loved by the squirrels and the peels are grabbed and carried off to the tree tops by the jays in their expectation that they will remember where they left them.

This morning brought the visual delight of 3 deer having a picnic at the old table at the back of the garden where I put the peels yesterday.


It started with two...


and then a third joined in...


It looks as though there was a single and a doe with her fawn judging by the size difference and the fact that the single didn't go exploring the rest of the garden like the two

Enjoy!

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