In the Hive

Michael took this beautiful picture in our Park tonight!

We have not set our rabbit trap in months and Mike had it tucked into the picnic table with one end up. Somehow, a squirrel got trapped in it today!

Our friends Rick and Jean showed up to help celebrate the autumnal equinox. Rick surprised us with his outfit, but Michael joined in the fun. We had some chocolate, toasted marshmallows by the fire, and said good-bye to summer.

Thomas snapped this picture at sunrise today - he loved the colors! He's back! I love this color morning glory!

Today in the garden, Michael spotted a gray tree frog. We had fun taking pictures of him and some of the bees on my black and blue salvias!

I went out on our deck to take a few of our sunflower heads to a friend, when I noticed I had a little visitor! As I pulled out on the camera shot, I noticed he or she had a companion! Looking on the internet, I discovered it is mating time from grasshoppers!

I managed to sneak in some fun things! I made a block to match my other one, and made a new block this morning with bees! Finished a quilt top sample for the shop called Clementine's Secret - Took some snaps in my "park" - I snuck to the quilt shop - Now it's back to studying!

Michael spotted this sunflower the other night - he thought it looked like it was laughing and covering its mouth with its hands! Maybe it was laughing at the rain storm moving in behind it - after all, it is a sunflower!

We came home Saturday from North Carolina. While we were gone, I was worried my sunflowers would topple over, but they were fine! My friend Karen came by and you can see my flowers are towering over her! She tried to get taller than them by climbing on the table, but that did not work!

Michael spotted my sleepy sunflower as he left for work today! Sometimes, it is tough to get going in the morning. But, not for the bees!

We have been having really rainy weather the past week. These were my sunflowers on July 31st: Here they are today! A lovely lily!

It has been a busy week! Last weekend we painted and rearranged our bedroom and got some new furniture for it! This week I am working at the Hershey Quilt show! While I was at the show yesterday Karl made a triple layer cake!! This is the first time he has tried a triple layer cake and the first time he has iced and decorated a cake on his own! We think it came out great!! He wanted to make a red velvet cake, but we did not have enough red dye. He used green dye to see if the cake would come out green, it did not, it came out brown! The blue dye turned the cream cheese frosting a very pretty robin's egg color. It tasted great! Thomas was out taking pictures in the garden, can you spot the bee in flight in the snapdragon shot?

Picked some veggies from the park, Karl is grilled some of them up for dinner! I put the last coat on the saffron threads wall and started the honey blush in the hallway. PAINT PAINT PAINT.