Wordless Wednesday - Inspiration is Everywhere!

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ♥  Happy Wednesday and THANK YOU for visiting today!!  Wishing you an INSPIRING Day!!
~Trina

A Wonderful Visit With My Mom!

My Mom came up from Texas for a wonderful visit.  She was here for four days and we enjoyed every second!  We packed a lot in to our time together and it was great to see her.  We all loved having her here!!  Our time to say good-bye came much too fast, as it always does.  It's so difficult to take that drive to the airport when it's time to go home, especially not knowing when we will see each other again.  I'm so glad to have so many great pictures of our time together, sharing a few here today...

There's a little place I drive by every day, to and from work, and I've always heard how great their Apple Cider and Apple Cider donuts are... So we stopped by, it's such a quaint and fun place.  We had a yummy snack and shopped in the little store. One of the other customers was very nice to take the above picture of my Mom and me for us.

My Mom took this picture of the front of the little store.  
They had it all decorated for fall and Halloween.

George, our daughter Melissa, my Mom, George's Mom and I spent one afternoon in Bay City.  It was a gorgeous day, we had lunch outside on the patio of the restaurant.  Perfect day for dining outside!  After lunch we walked along the river.  They were having a 'History Weekend' on the banks of the river and there were all kinds of great things to see.  People dressed up from different times in history, sharing examples of how life was lived back then.  My Mom captured the next four great photos while we were there:

My sweet daughter threw me a surprise birthday party ~ My birthday isn't until the 23rd, but she wanted to have the party while my Mom was here.  It was such fun and I was definitely surprised!!  We ended the party with a bonfire in the back yard.  Thank you Melissa!!! You made my birthday EXTRA SPECIAL!!!  :)   On another day we enjoyed an afternoon at a Pumpkin Farm, and went through the corn maze.  I was so glad my Mom got to see some of the changing colors as we drove around!  We enjoyed stopping along the way to take pictures.  Here are a few that I took, it was the perfect day for picture taking!!!

 I love this!  My Mom took this picture at the pumpkin farm...  

The man who carved it was there last year too, and we enjoyed watching him carve.

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ♥  Thank you Mom, for such a wonderful time while you were here!  

We miss you! ~Trina

Autumn in Michigan

Autumn is such a lovely time of year!  I never really got to experience the brilliant change of colors in the fall until moving here in 2009.  Each fall season since then, I have been enjoying the gorgeous colors.  Of course, we have lost a lot of the leaves now, and there's a lot of raking going on here.  Today is cold, rainy and windy... But the temperatures are going to go up a bit in the next few days (when the rain stops) and the sun will come out again for a day or two... Hopefully we'll still have some pretty colors to see, but I don't know... It's been pretty windy!  I always love to drive around and take photographs of the fall colors... I thought I'd share a few with you, and I also wanted to share some pictures of the Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch that we visited last weekend...  But first, here are two shots that I took in our yard before the rains came, and before the raking began.

I love the way the morning sun shines through the trees along the creek at the back of our yard.  It's a pretty view to enjoy with my morning coffee!

       Wood carvings, he does it all with a chain saw.

We had fun at the Pumpkin Patch and got lost in the Corn Maze... But we did finally find our way out!  My daughter, Melissa, had her dog Emmi with her, and she stopped at this sign with her two cousins so I could take a picture.  Emmi loved the corn maze, she wanted to wander off the path and go through the corn to take short cuts... Had we followed her, we probably wouldn't have gotten lost! LOL!

We like to take our walks down this road, it's a pretty road that winds around from our house... There's usually no cars on the road, and there's beautiful farmland beyond the trees. 

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ♥ Thanks for visiting today!!  Wishing you a beautiful 'Autumn color' kind of day! 

~Trina

Dazzel 'Em

 It's Treasury Tuesday ~ Part II!

Beautiful creations by fantastic Etsy Artists!  Enjoy!

 

I was thinking of the changing season as I was 

putting this bold colorful collection together.  

I love the colors of Autumn!

  

Dazzel 'Em!

 

   

   

   

Picked by Trina's Clay Creations

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ♥ Wishing you a great day!  :)

Trina