gardening

I hired Traivon to come and clean up my garden this weekend (get it ready for winter). He did a great job. Hauled all of the trash to the dumpster, swept the walk and left the bricks that I lay out as a stone path to the faucet artfully arranged:

Pumpkin time

Had the grand girls over a couple of times this week. Thought I'd get a bit of pumpkin carving done while they were here. Mine is on the right, Syndey's is in the middle and Casey's is on the left.
Jerry isn't one for celebrating the "holidays" so this was a good excuse for me to be able to put out a cute decoration or two.

Sunnyside

I followed my quilt to Sunnyside, WA last weekend. The Conference meeting for the United Methodist Women was held there and the quilts from the Spokane area were on display. (We were the only district to have a quilt challenge). I have no idea when the Auction will be but it was nice to see the quilt again and I got the name of a person on the Atlantic Street board.
While in that remote area of the state (southern central Washington - remote) I said while we are this close lets go to MaryHill and see Stone Henge.

















Go to www.legendsofamerica.com/WA-Stonehenge.html to read more about this war memorial. I thought I would be more awe struck but I guess, since it is a reproduction of the original, it just doesn't have the same "spirits" floating around. The Museum at MaryHill was a large castle brought over here by Sam Hill for the Bulgarian Queen (he had a crush on her) but she didn't care for the nothingness of the area (I guess) and gave it to the State for a museum. This area is on the north side of the Columbia River, between Nothing and Not anything. Really! It's two hours from anywhere, in any direction. The bridge across the river is closed for repairs so you have to go a ways even to get to Oregon. The Peacocks were great tho.















There was also a great Blue Heron Sculpture.