Fantastic in Fall Colors

Our farm is beautiful in all the seasons. However, her finest apparal seems to me to be her oranges, yellows and reds. Maybe since we first owned her a year ago in Fall it is more noticable to me.
I snapped these photos a few days 'post-peak' here in Indiana, but my Maple tree had started throwing gorgeous yellow-orange leaves in huge quantities.
Covering our cottage in a crown of jewels just for the season.
While I was snapping those photos, Duncan was trying to move around his pumpkins

and enjoying the best part of Autumn. The leaves!

The trees are now, two weeks after this photo shoot, nearly bare and the leaves in questions merely brown mulch-to-be.

Peak color, Fall beauty and all it entails is SO brief that I think we almost MISS it every year.

Did you enjoy it this year? Are you?

The crows weren't even scared!

Of my little man Saturday! Are you?

Autumn is here and with it....

Hot soup weather.
A few years ago my pal, Daryl, gave me a recipe for Taco Soup. Since then I have made it more times than I can count. A few weeks ago we had a good cool night and I made it for my family. I even managed to get my little guy to eat it early(ish) and go to bed so Jay and I could enjoy a 'date night'.
Here is my table set with all the 'extras' that you serve it with. You can add Sour Cream to your 'add ins' if you want.
If you like Chili and like Mexican flavor you may have a new recipe for your bag of tricks.
You will need:
1 lb of ground meat (or even faux meat if you are a veg.)
2 cans of tomatoes (or fresh)
1 can of black beans (or soaked dry black beans)
2 cans of corn
packet of taco seasoning mix.

Make it just like Chili. Brown meat..(i always add onions/garlic when I brown my meat). Then drain if you don't use turkey or really lean meat. Add Taco seasoning packet and mix up. Add the other ingredients, stir, get hot, turn down and simmer (I use crock pot usually) and go away for a little while. You can serve it pretty soon after you make it, but I like it to 'meld' for a little while. I will often make it early in the day and let it cook all day. You come home to yummy smells and your family will find you a hero.

If you have to you can use Kidney beans, although I prefer the black beans for texture and color, also I use turkey or chicken in my recipe. When I made it this day I used tomatoes from my garden and my black beans, as well. Makes it even more tasty, somehow.

Here is the ONLY way to eat it.....Line bottom of your bowl with corn chips, ladle generously, top with a mexican cheese or a sharp cheddar and maybe some Sour Cream....taste...enjoy...REPEAT!

Enjoy a tasty taco soup with your loved ones soon!

A topic with no photos???

For some reason, blogger refuses to let me upload tonight...so instead of the cute pink rose cups I was going to share I have to do a verbal dance. Sadly, that will be the equivalent of my old dog tap dancing to music she can't hear. Just not all that funny and definately not classy.

So, just a quick note to my readers. Fall is in the air here. The air condition is off, the windows are open and it is lovely. I picked green peppers, an eggplant and a few tomatoes today. I also figured out why "squirrel corn" is not 'decorating indian corn'...um....MOTHS. Little tiny moths. So my fall decoration from a week or so ago has been dismantled and the squirrels got it as originally intended.

Yesterday, we took Duncan to Anderson Orchard. We have two great orchards, but Anderson is bigger and has U-pick so we went there for this visit. Also they seem to get their Jonagold's out sooner. I LOVE them...I wait ALL year for Jonagold's and eat them until they are no longer available and then think about the next years crop. There isn't much better than a Jonagold with some peanut butter....it just tastes like Autumn to me.

Well, blog-gals I hope you are all enjoying our upcoming fall and we can hope Blogger will let me show you little teacup pictures next week.

Okay just for you guys!

I did ONE little thing for FALL!

I went to the orchard and they didn't have in my fave apples yet so I got ears of 'squirrel corn' for 25c ea. They were too pretty to keep outside so I did this!

It is far from perfect, but that is the point. It is fall at it's finest and easy peasy and I will probably change it out to little squash in a few weeks. For now, you can all stop hassling me for resisting Autumn.