My Husband

My husband is a very wonderful creative guy and he loves to have fun.

This was at a thrift store in Rhode Island. I don't think this particular hat suits him. *winks*

He's my captain! Till he changes hats anyway.

Now a cowboy.

And now my own sweethearted um, whatever that hat is.

He was fixing one of my earrings so he clipped it on to try it out and then slapped my "gangsta" hat on. 

Mr. Cool

My main character Ambrose Donahue, being portrayed by Matthew Gravel.

I think he's happy, don't you?

And he's handsome too.

I'm not sure what he's doing in this picture but he looks thoughtful, which he is. He's the most thoughtful man I know.

He doesn't want his picture taken.

Especially when he's tired and can't find his magic eyes - a.k.a. glasses.

He's very playful and protective. An odd mix sometimes.

He's the happiest man on earth

And I love him very very much.

Blackberry Picking

Back in August after we came back to California from the enchanted land of Rhode Island, my husband and I went blackberry picking. It was a "massive" two-day adventure and tons of fun!

On Day 1, he was not at all well dressed for the prickly patch just a short hop through the forest.

I think he realized that. He has pretty solid feet but even a hobbit's feet would get tired of the prickles after awhile.

Step carefully darling! The blackberry patch is on the side of a seasonal pond in the woods from my folks' house. It was all dried up save for some squishy mud when we were there. You can see the bank rising off to the left of the picture.

Still, even with no shoes, he did scramble all over the place and pick quite a lot of berries. His trusty walking stick helped quite a bit. His scaredy-cat wife, not so much.

On Day 2, he came much better dressed in long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, gloves and boots.

And as a result, he was all over the place even more than the previous time.

He even climbed up a dead tree to reach a cluster of large berries.

That's the area he was climbing around in the above photos.

I helped, a but anyway but I still helped.

The main bank of the pond

with all the berries.

These beauties are the gnarly wild gooseberries.

They're gorgeous

And you'll never guess how you eat them

You just take the prickly berry and pop it in your mouth. My family loves doing that to newbies.

There were even some blackberry flowers still out. This one has a bee on it.

But only a few.

There were lots of red and green berries that would ripen to the luscious black ones.

It was an interesting task to pick only the black ripe berries.

There were also a ton of slugs in the one lone muddy patch of the pond.

We think they were getting ready to hunker down for the winter.

See?

I was having fun taking pictures of the grass clumps since grass doesn't really grow up there.

Being a Rhode Islander, he loves the grass.

He looks happy doesn't he? That's because he just picked all of

These yummy fruits

and

He stole the camera and took my picture. Silly man.

An Enchanted Walk

A week {or two by the time this gets published} ago, my husband and I were bored one fine Autumn day when we weren't working so we decided to go for a walk.

It had rained all the previous week before so the moss was out in full force and was splendid to see.

And the fall colors are so breath-taking where we live that we had to try to capture them.

We found a random bush with these funny berry things growing on it and decided it made a great backdrop for photos.

See what I mean?

The view was amazing. Pity the camera in the cell phone is unable to reproduce it very well.

We found another mossy tree and I had a little show all to myself of watching my barefoot husband trying to get into it.

He finally made it though. His checklist later read: Conquer random mossy tree, check.

Another breath-taking view the phone failed to capture.