HAPPY NEW WEEK!I hope everyone has a wonderful week!I don't have a picture this week, but I thought I'd include these two links for anyone who wants to look at them. (1) This is aerial video photography of the autumn foliage at Turkey Run State Park, which is just down the road from my house. The water is Sugar Creek. The video is 2 1/2 minutes, but the nicest footage is shown at about 1 minute 45 seconds in the video. (2) This is aerial video photography of the autumn foliage at Shades State Park, which is only a few minutes from me. The Shades is very, very special to me because that's where my grandfather was a Park Forest Ranger. I spent a lot of time there when I was young, as did my Mom when she was little. The bridge is the Deer's Mill Covered Bridge, which was built in 1829 over Sugar Creek. The photographic drone even goes inside the bridge. Swallows and other birds nest in the rocky canyon cliffs. The video is 3 minutes. Here are some videos showing the outside and inside of some of the other bridges near my house. (No one is obligated to look at them.) Every year, over a million people come to my area in October to attend the Covered Bridge Festival. These videos were taken this month, right after the end of the festival.Jackson Covered Bridge, built in 1861 during the Civil War. In the 1800s, at times of high water, people launched flat boats at this point on Sugar Creek to float goods over to the Wabash River, where they travelled to the Ohio River and then to the mighty Mississippi River and on to the markets in New Orleans. Video is 2 minutes.West Union Covered Bridge, built in 1876. This bridge and its earlier versions were used by stage coaches on their way to Lafayette in NW Indiana during frontier times. The famous Wabash and Erie Canal was east of this bridge. Video is 2 minutes. Cox Ford Covered Bridge, on the west side of Turkey Run State Park over Sugar Creek. Video is 2 1/2 minutes.The Narrows Covered Bridge , in Turkey Run State Park over Sugar Creek. It's one of the most photographed covered bridges in the nation. The local Native American tribes and settlers from several countries had various names for Sugar Creek, but they all knew the Sugar Creek valley for its maple trees, the source of maple sugar. Video is 2 minutes.
Good Morning. Foggy and misty here.
Overslept this morning!
Today's pic:
Lindy: I have a pair of those in my garden. :-)
Ooh! Diane! -- they're gorgeous!
Lindy: The Blue Jays are very smart birds (they're corvids). We once had one here that could mimic the Red-Tailed Hawks. He would screech like a hawk. All the other birds would flee or freeze. Then he would help himself to the best seeds in the bird feeder. LOL
Dry but white cloud and warmer today. Christmas meals all planned and agreed by the three of us - I gave the men a piece of paper each to make suggestions, then we plotted it into the days of J's holiday from work. J has volunteered to cook some of his choices, which will make less for OH and me to do, although I still got the usual "I'll cook pancakes if you make the batter"!
OH has helped mend set of shelves with J - they had gone wonky, so he has strengthened the corners. He is now cleaning my shower room (missed out yesterday) and then going to print the church newsletters. I am about to order more Christmas chocolates and then hopefully write our annual letter (not much to say about 2017, so that won't take long!) and continue finishing cards.
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
OG - As usual I am amazed that you are so organized with your Christmas meals etc! I just make sure that the ingredients for whatever meals we may choose are here and because there are so many of us, no waste of fresh ingredients - I just send them home with stuff, so never any waste. Shopping list doesn't change from one year to the other since they always want the same food.... Boring?!!! I will have to remember to include the ingredients for Danish type meals because the Danes arrive on the 27th. Mostly, that means buying minced pork for frikadeller. I don't usually have minced pork in my freezer.
DIANE love the story about the Blue Jay. What a clever bird and lucky you to see this for yourself.
ANNETTE Only 28 lengths today as I was meeting my friend back from her travels so my time was limited.
Basic meals here at C time are always the same. 24th is often lasagne but can be salmon.Roast beef also Turkey on 25th because we are not all Turkey lovers. Christmas pudding and another lighter pud. A ham cooked on the 25th so 26th is all three meats plus whatever,whatever,usually salads, chutneys, chips, jacket potatoes.Home made smoked salmon pate,Sherry trifle, lemon meringue pie. Cheeses, fruit, port and sleep :-)
HEATHER That all sounds good. OH got his Christmas rota a couple of days ago. He is working on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, 6pm and 4pm respectively. Could be worse.