Book...Decorating...Question...

Another delightfully illustrated book, by Elsa Bedskow.  Oh these drawings make me want to draw some, just like them...  Myself.

My Header (the silhouette) is from inside this book..

I finally finished decorating my mantel.  And a good thing that is.  It's close to Thanksgiving.  And when it gets close to a holiday, I get *antsy* to change decorations.

-grin-  My bad.  I know.  Don't rush the Seasons.  Don't rush seasonal decorating.  Do not rush the Turning of the Wheel of the Year.  It turns fast enough, as is.  Or seems to.... 

Where are you, on this matter?  Content to stay in the current holiday mode, until it is over?  Get *fidgetty* to change decorations, early?  Or maybe, the very opposite....  Tend to be *later* than *everyone* else, with your holiday decorating?

There are no wrong answers.  We each do, what we do, and that's fine.

And I actually put something up on my Page of "Sometimes I Write." 
 For if you have the time and inclination.  We are all busy, I know.

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Hunker down! November is upon us!

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"Now in November, the leaves spread a cloth of gold and red on the ground.  The open fields take on a cinnamon tone and the wild blackberry canes in the swamp are frosted purple.  The colors fade slowly to sober hues.  The rain falls with determination in long leaden lines, and when it stops, water drips from the eaves."

Gladys Taber

"The Best Of Stillmeadow"

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November can be a tricky month...  Nature is really settling down now, for a long winter's nap.  All of last Season, is being blown away, matting under foot, or completely harvested.  -sigh-

 Come the rains, the gray skies, the wind, the rather gloomy outlook.

 Sooooooooooooo, it's best to hunker down inside.  Make your own nest, as warm and cozy and comfy as you can.  Have a fire in the fireplace...  Lots of throws around, to put over one's knees, or wrap one's self in...  Some knitting beside your favorite chair...  Along with lovely books to pick up...  Pretty candles, warmly scented, if one's nose will allow scent in the home...

 Something baking in the oven....  Something bubbling on top of the stove...  Something slowly cooking, in the Crock Pot...

Warmth...  Comfort...  Coziness...  These we seek, when November rolls around.

Please share your own plans, for keeping the Nov. doldrums at bay...  :-)

"I am excessively fond of a cottage;

there is always so much comfort,

so much elegance about them."

~Jane Austin

Saturday musings...

So far this summer, I've been reading "Cozy" after "Cozy" after "Cozy."  So for a change, I got this lovely coffee-table-type book ("Summers In France") out of the library.  And the delightful sounding "The Children Of Noisy Village."

The "Summer"... one is full of dreamy pictures, from the author's nearly 20 years of spending her summers in France...  In the French farm, which she completely re-did...  With her family...  And with "hundreds" of her friends.  Not kidding with the "hundreds."  She entertains in a big way!

 The house and area provide all, with a lovely setting.  Friends can go/do what they choose, during the days.  But all gather around her table, for evening meals.  Always...

 I'm sure I'm very late, in coming across these "Children Of Noisy Village" books.  I know Pippy Longstockings, but not these books by Astrid Lindgren.

 Out the window over the kitchen sink.  It's been too cool at night, to let the heat stay in the pool.  Extended family members don't want to go in it, when the water isn't warm enough.  Not even my husband wants to go in it, when the water gets cool and the temps are cool-ish too.

So, me-thinks the pool will be closed early, this year.

It's been cool enough, especially at night, to start thinking of Autumn.  Noticing the shadows of ambiance lighting (above), kind of goes with Autumnal thoughts...  :-)  ~~~~~~  Evening shadows...  Magical...  Looking as if they had been painted by the Fey...   :-))))

But the Cosmos are still so pretty, in the sun.  And I'm not pushing toward Autumn.  ~~~~~~  I love, love, love that Season.  But I never want to hurry the Changing of the Seasons...  I don't wish to hurry the turning of the Wheel of the Year.