Here is another reblog on a great old movie for this time of year. Go watch it today! 
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Autumn In New England (via Cherylmcnulty’s Blog)
Autumn is upon us, and I am ready to take my Autumn In New England CD out once again and listen… and dream. Here is a lovely piece of music on that CD. Oh, I just want to cry when I hear it. The memories of my kids and the fun things we used to do all come swarming back to me. 
I think I may just grab them now anyway and force them to go on a pumpkin ride with me…ha-ha!
Autumn In New England
I just love Autumn in New England. I can think of nowhere else I would rather be this time of year. I want to pick apples, go on pumpkin rides, go antiquing, make a scarecrow. I’m just a kid all over again, and I love it. I’ll share it all with my kids, too.
I have this music(CD) I had bought at a drugstore many years ago called “Autumn in New England” and I would play it in my car driving with the kids to all the cool “Fallish” events we would go to. Do you know to this day, they remember and just love this music! They absorb things like a sponge and they stick, and now rhey are in their teens, but they still love to remember all the things we would do in the fall. It just never goes away.
So here..I found this music and it come from my cd, Close your eyes and listen and think of romping through leaves and pumpkin pie! Enjoy!
My kids when they were younger at a pumpkin farm(see the smiles)
Finally…A New Post
Okay, I was trying to think of something to write about… or even just share, and it was hard. I wanted to do something for the season and I finally came up with this picture I had done of a scarecrow, not being so….scary! He is a little upset that the crows like him so much, after all they are supposed to be afraid of him. I like the way he just has this look of discontent with the whole thing. But it still is cute. Enjoy!
The "Not so scary" Scarecrow
Today Was A Tough One
Today, it was exactly a week ago that my pup, Maxi passed away. I was home by myself , which is a rarity. I had time to think and reminisce and…clean up. To put away the little things, the last remembrances of him. It was not easy.
First, I took his box of goodies from under the counter (assorted half-chewed bones, balls, his leash and muzzle) and cleaned it out. He used to paw at this box when he wanted to entertain himself or want a bone of some sort, even until about the last day, he still wanted a bone from that box! I threw out all the disgusting bones and kept the last things I remember him playing with. The bone he had half hanging out of his mouth like a cigarette:)…always makes me smile. I kept that. The brushes he loved the girls brushing him with when he had a skin condition that kept him scratching constantly-I kept those too.
Then there was his dog dish…that was tough. I cleaned it out one last time and dusted it off, filled the bowl on one side with water to see it one last time (silly!), and since it was too big to put in his box, I figured I would just bag it all together. I cannot throw out the dish.
Then – the side yard. The fenced off section for him to “go” in. I raked it all clean, and pulled out every weed and overgrown blade of grass and after that, I lay down grass seed…everywhere. He had killed every living blade of grass in that area (except for the weeds, of course. they live through everything) Even though I felt like this was the last step, I had thought how neat it would be to see green grass growing there again.
That was that. It was all done.
I just have the crate in the basement that he loved and slept in every night. When I opened it’s door every morning, he would be quivering with excitement to just eat, and I would hold the door and say, “Ready, set,…go!” He’d scamper so fast up those basement steps just to get his breakfast that was waiting for him.
Also, I had ordered a stone last night online with a pawprint, his name, and dates, and I will place it on the side yard where he frequented, only now in the Spring, instead of dead branches and brown blades, it will have flowers and be ”pea” green!!! And I will think of him.
I will put together a book about how he first came to us, a picture book with his photos, and I will have a photo on our table sitting among the kids portraits from school, and he will have his stone in the garden.
Then…I think maybe, then…I can start leaving this all behind me and just go on. He was a big part of our lives and grew up with the kids, he was a big part of their childhood. He will always be remembered.
<3
Maxi walking away with hawaiian flowers on his neck and chew toy
The gentleman
Max<3
On Golden Pond
For some odd reason, I started thinking of this great movie from 1981. It must be the time of year. The Fall.
My mind always starts reeling as the leaves take on their vibrant colors and the air contains a slight chill. Although it is beautiful, it has a sadness to it, the end of summer. The leaves are really dying, but it can be breathtaking. I somehow want to bake pies, go hiking and be with nature as much as I can, before it’s all brown…and gone. Memories of the past start flooding my brain of past Halloweens and Thanksgivings, kids jumping in leaves and going on pumpkin rides.
So for some reason, this movie came to mind…I think it was the piano music from the movie I remember loving so much. It went so well with the meaning of this movie. When you listen to it in the very beginning, you know you are in for a great movie. It’s slow and beautiful, with the haunting sound of the loons that visit the pond every year. The movie itself is about relationships, the passing of time and change. For me, that’s all I need for a great movie.
The cast was perfect. Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer and Katherine Hepburn, his devoted wife, Ethel. Their daughter, Chelsea, was perfectly played by Jane Fonda, and you could see before your very eyes the relationship between the two (for real) grow and become closer. You could feel Jane’s agony as she struggles to get closer to her Dad. This always makes me cry at the end of the movie as they overcome this obstacle.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen this movie yet, now would be the perfect time. It will surely make you feel good inside and the memory of it will linger on. You might want to even visit where it was filmed, like I always wanted to. It was filmed on Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire.
Beautiful! Enjoy these clips and escape.
Landslide By Stevie Nicks (music video)
Here is a song that I think will touch your heart, especially if you are older. There is just something about this song that gets you right in the heart. The line in the song that says “children get older, and I’m getting older, too”, I can picture snapshots of my life and my kids getting older, and the years flying by…and it gets me. Listen and see if it does something to your heart. It will definitely move you somehow. Enjoy.
Berry Days
This is a print I did because of my love for the Springtime, and also, for berry picking.
I love going to the local farm stand and going on the tractor ride early in the morning. Just hearing the sounds of the large field sprinklers and the families with their children, and all the excitement in the air. Everyone gets a basket and gets dropped off in the field. You can pick as many berries you’d like, and then when you take them home (if you don’t eat them all in the car), you get to decide what you can make with all those juicy berries! And there’s plenty of options!
Just thinking of all this makes me want Spring even more! I can’t wait!
Enjoy!
Berry Days
Ahhhh, Strawberries and Cream! Delightful!
