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boo!

 

 

happy hallowe'en

xo

margie and kath

Friday Favourites

The sky was crazy the night we drove to Stratford last month.  I love a good sunset.

 

I'm loving all the cute tights and leggings I'm seeing everywhere.

 

 

I loved the clock in the lobby of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.  It confirmed the feeling that time seems to be running twice fast these days and speeding by me.  Plus I love staying in a hotel.

Apparently there's a pumpkin shortage so I love that I grew my own, 

 even if it didn't really ripen.

 

One thing I hate, I hate wearing costumes and will not dress up, although I wouldn't mind having a different name for Hallowe'en.  How about you call me Ethel?*

Happy Hallowe'en Eve

xo

Kath (aka Ethel)

 

* Ethel is one my favourite stores.

what i loved

see the title, right there in the middle beside the pink book.

ha!!  what i loved, next to a pink book.

what a perfect combo for love thursday 

and  breast cancer awareness month.

the thing is, i don't always love a book. if i dare to put a book down before i finish, something i have really only felt comfortable doing in the last few years, i justify myself to death. i have always felt that it was a bit disrespectful to, as the kids would say, dis someone's labour of love.  i imagine that writing a book has to be a huge labour of love.  

this month i didn't finish my book club selection. the infidel. i didn't like it. i was sympathetic to the topic, to the author, i strongly believe that the issues facing this woman should be at the fore front of our political agenda, but i didn't like the book. i didn't like the way it was written, the detail, the style, we didn't click. and that's okay.  

there are a million books out there for me to bond with. in fact the book i picked up last night, the book thief, grabbed me immediately. it is very poetic, i am sure tragic, although i have not read nearly enough to know, but i suspect. it is a holocaust book, which i tend to stay away from, but this one is drawing me in.  

i looked at andy and said, mmm, page six of the preface and i am loving this book.  it is a good fit for me.  i thought about it often today, wishing i had time to sit down and read. the other book, and the two other half-read books sitting on my night stand, they don't call me during the day. 

just like i don't have to love every man i meet, or every meal i eat, or every movie i see, i don't have to love every book i read.  

it is okay to know what i love.

and what i don't.

happy love thursday everyone.

visit the beautiful poetic christina to show your support 

and share the love over at chookoolonks .

xo margie

A Fine Balance

Chaos

Order

 

Balance

xo

Kath

ladybug infestation

i hope our meredyth sees this post. she has a fondness for ladybugs.  

andy and i were on our way to montreal and stopped to walk charley.

i came out of the restaurant and andy yelled "get your camera".

"see that rust over there on the bottom of those concrete towers?

they are ladybugs"

 

 

whoa.

 

seriously.  not cute.  

ladybugs are only cute one at a time.  

i was itchy the whole rest of the drive.  lol.

you know the rhyme ladybug ladybug fly away home.

this is more like the old woman in the shoe 

who had so many children

she didn't know what to do.

on the way home we pulled over for a tranquil photo.

and yes kath, we hit schwartz's for smoked meat, how can you not?

xo margie

macro monday papermoon

I saw this beautiful nest, it reminded me of paper and the moon, I can see a face in it.   I knew it would be perfect for macro monday.

 

I had another shot I was going to grab on my way home, a beautiful orchard in full fall colour so I had the camera in the car  when I went to pick Barry up from work.  We discovered that there was a bad fire burning in our small town.  A block of stores, 150 year old buildings had been burning for hours by the time we came on the scene.  Barry and I watched for almost two hours, until past dark when we finally had to tear ourselves away.  It's hard to watch, but fascinating too.  

The sun setting in the background made the scene very surreal.

 

 

Barry and I shared the camera, the second and last photos were taken by him.  Between us we took over 300 photos, it's probably a good thing we only have one camera!

Lisa hosts Macro Monday for us.

xo

Kath

fall

 

I cannot easily dismiss the subject of the fallen leaves. . . Consider what a vast crop is thus annually shed upon the earth. This, more than any mere grain or seed, is the great harvest of the year. This annual decay and death, this dying by inches, before the whole tree at last lies down and turns to soil. 

henry david thoreau

as much as i love to take photos of flowers, and let's face it, who doesn't. the perfect colours and form beg to be photographed, i love the weeds and stragglers of fall.

 

as i was waiting for this to upload i was thinking

these are an inspiration to me,

that as i age, i too grow more unique.

xo margie

Autumnal Beauty

'morning.   I am going to go take a picture for you, but I have to drive a couple of miles to get to the picture.   Go have a coffee and come back. 

I hope this works out!

xo

Kath

Okay, I'm back, I couldn't stay in bed not with this kind of light out there it won't wait.

 

Every morning on the way to work I drive past this shed.  I knew I had to go back with my camera this morning, it's breathtaking and these colours are not going to wait for us either.

 

And then on the way home I couldn't resist this driveby shot.

 

And now, for some strange reason, I want to go make a fragrant colourful curry.  Why do you think that would be?

Happy Saturday.

xoxo

Kath

kinder visit

 

it isn't like andy and i have nothing to do.  we have a whole house to pack, things to put in storage, decisions to make, you get the picture. instead we are pulling the good car out of storage and heading off to montreal to do some hugging.

there is a commercial on tv where a little boy, just about the age of david, is hugging his mother.  it makes me crazy. every single time i see it i ache for a hug from those two babies of ours.  i know that neither dave or daniel, at four and eighteen months, are really babies any more, but they are the closest thing i have to a baby and i need to give them a squeeze.

 

xo margie

Super Hero Sock Monkeys

It's Thursday, a busy day here at Soeurs du Jour.  We've got love and hearts to find, we're thinking pink for breast cancer awareness and it would appear everyone wants to meet my sock monkey.

First, can I point you in the direction of a cool thing?  So You Want to be a Superhero is a great little 'zine and if you buy one $8.00 goes to breast cancer research.  Can't beat that.   And the artists that contributed? They've done some fabulous work. I know, because mine came in the mail yesterday.

I am finally feeling better, finally, after four weeks of feeling sick.  I was on the verge of getting worried something was seriously wrong, I couldn't remember what it felt like to feel well. I knew there was a light at the end of the tunnel on Sunday when I bought my sock monkey and couldn't stop laughing and smiling.  I bought one for my sister of course.  Then Se'Lah bought one and I think Christina is buying one too.   Sock monkeys are the new black.   I'll be mailing Margie's boy out to her today.

 

Wait!  Where did that third guy come from?  Now we're going to have to decide what to do with him!  What do you think?

Do us a favour, while you're coming up with ideas for monkey # 3, keep thinking pink --  Christina at Soul Aperture has got us spreading the word about breast cancer awareness.   Talk, donate, walk, contribute, check your boobies.  Be a Superhero.

Happy Love Thursday.  Remember, we love you.

xoxo

Kath