Autumn has arrived!

A.U.T.U.M.N.

I am thinking this may be bittersweet OVERKILL...

so I may remove what is on the mirror and put it somewhere else.

I had it there a few days before I added the basket full and now it is like...

 WOW! ha!

Just a little decor on my front porch and back deck.

I love color outside my home in the fall, but still pretty much stick to neutrals inside.

A favorite arrangement on my back porch. I leave you with this thought:

Life fails to be perfect, but never fails to be beautiful!!

HAPPY AUTUMN to all my blogging friends!!

Hug a loved one today!!

Blessings~

Snow, snow and more snow makes for pretty outside decor

It has been several years since our part of Michigan has actually had snow for Christmas.
Oh, we would get a tad bit, but not much at all.
I think this year is changing that.
We got NINE inches a few days ago.

What better time than to snap a few photos around the ole' homestead.
There are pine cones in the olive  basket above...underneath the snow. :)

In lieu of no job and being careful spending money , we trimmed our evergreen trees and
I added a bundle to my bench on the front porch.

I have always loved this little lantern that my daughter gave me several years ago.
Make note of this photo when you see another one later in the post with much more snow
on it. 

Wreaths with berries, pine cones from our own trees, a pretty lady statue, live greenery and an
old picnic basket...

perfect for Christmas.

I even dressed up our outside light with fake pine greenery and a red ribbon.

I didn't purchase one thing this year to decorate. Just pulled from my stash.

My little window house even says
HAPPY HOLIDAYS.

Much more snow in this pic...eh? :)

A favorite sled with skates, greenery and ribbon

There are also pine cones in this clay pot...so funny. I hope to get pictures that actually
show the cones before the winter is over.

I was in the process of decorating my back porch so this stuff is not totally where I want
it , but oh well.

I hope you enjoyed your mini tour of my outside winter decor.

I pray that each one of you have a wonderful holiday season and that you will be blessed
many times over!!

Wintery White Wednesday~

when i no longer thrill to the first snow of the season,

i'll know i'm growing old.

-lady bird johnson

snow

has arrived in michigan

a light dusting that fell ever so gently on rooftops and houses

soft as an angels wings ~

in the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,

earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;

snow had fallen, snow on snow,snow on snow,

in the bleak midwinter, long ago.

angels and archangels may have gathered there,

cherubim and seraphim thronged the air,

but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,

worshipped the beloved with a holy kiss.

what can i give him, poor as i am? if i were a shepherd , i would bring a lamb;

if i were a wise man, i would do my part;

yet what i can i give him,

i give him my heart.

-christina rossetti, 1862

Please visit Kathleen over at Faded Charm

for more lovely White Wednesday posts~

blessings~

My Front Porch ~

I love sitting on my front porch with my sweet

2 year old granddaughter Annika.

She says, "I want to swinggggg...I want to swinggggg"

so we go out and sit in the glider and swing. It makes her so happy ~

I took these photos at the beginning of flower season

when the flowers were in full bloom ~ I usually have pillows on my glider ... I have no idea how I missed that~

I LOVE ferns on my front porch~

I want to spray paint the mirror on the wall white

It has birds on it and it would just be perfect then ~

Once again, lovely flowers when in all reality right now...

the petunias in the cone basket don't look too great. Where is my gardener ~

I sat an old iron chair over my white phlox.

They are just starting to bloom right now ~

Love my pinks ~

We have not done one thing to this porch since we moved here

in 1982. It could use some renovation , but it just

hasn't happened and at our age now I doubt it ever will.

I will just continue to enjoy it as is.

Blessings~