Last day of tree!

I thought this was pretty in our bathroom window...leaves pressed from branches on the glass.

good morning tree

A tree fell on our house today =o(

200 year old tree from our neighbor's backyard decided to fall on our house today....
Temp and I were in our garage at the time. I heard branches falling quickly on the garage roof. I told Temp while he was in the basement trying to gather things from the flooding that I was concerned because it was happening so often.
I went to open the door to the outside to check out the scene, and I watched the 200 year old tree from the window crash on our house.
If I had been out there 1 minute sooner, I would have been crushed by the tree.
In the end, 2 of our nice trees were knocked down by this one tree. No one was hurt, and the damage is not as bad as it could have been. We feel very fortunate. Now waiting to hear from the insurance claims adjuster.
I have to say, I have never freaked out so much in my life as I did just 3 hours ago.



2 hours later I found this branch protruding our newly renovated bathroom, we also have a hole in garage roof as well that's about 10" in diameter.

noreaster walk

2 streets down from us! about a foot deep
pretty windy!

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds

With the Canon

nor'easter 09-cell phone

sal and i sitting in the window seat watching the nor'easter

Weekend in North Carolina

Some of my favorite pics with niece and nephew...more to come on flickr.

temp's backyard

winston-salem,nc

Carving pumpkins with the Clacks

The first one is Temp's, he did a shaved skeleton, also shown below. I did a cartoon version of Salvador our cat. Matt and Emily did the Newlydeads, because they are newlyweds!! Fun times!

A Day in Richmond

We went to Richmond mainly to go to the Botanical Gardens there...
Beautiful fall foliage




Cool bug.
The Screw Tree, loved the texture of it's bark
We also stopped by an estate sale and got a whole sewing box about the size of a tackle box full of thread, needles, etc. $8.25...then hit the Williamsburg outlets and got some slip-on vans when Temp traded in some they he got for free from them and didn't want, and 2 sweaters. Mental health day--successful!