Fall Colours

I entered this photo into the photo challenge over on 2peas this week - "Fall Beauty".  Love this photo which I took in Geneva, Illinois in October 2002.

Love how there is just one leaf after turning ...  there are things I still miss about living in the US - I loved "Fall".  The smells, sounds, coolness in the breeze.  I adored visiting the pumpkin patches with the boys when they were very young - because they were such a novelty (the patches... not the boys! LOL!).  Don't have "patches" in Ireland although some garden centres now do Fall displays which include pumpkins. 

I don't suppose that my DS would remember this now... but he got his wagon and was ready for action!.

Thankfully my Dad now grows us a pumpkin each year.  I started planting pumpkin plants from seed when we returned from the US, then my Dad (who is very green fingered!) took over and this is his beauty for us this year.... all ready for carving!.  (hopefully I will have posted a photo of the beauty here before this goes to post... the pumpkin is all wrapped up safe in the garage and is too heavy for me to lift!).

I won some wonderful blog candy over on Kathy's blog - cannot tell you how excited I am... I do not have any Penny Black stamps..... so now I get a kick start to my Penny Black collection!  Be sure to check out the new wonderful PB Blog.  A couple of my HA flickr buddies Kathy Racoosin and Ashley Marcu are designers for Penny Black and are creating amazing things.

Thanks so much for stopping by.