Trees

You don't have to tell me.. today is Thursday. And the last time I posted was Thursday. So let me try and do some catching up. It seems like it doesn't take much to get me off track and mess up my schedule. I was going along pretty good here on the blogging thing. Then oops.. I disappeared.

Well over the weekend we attended a wedding for a relative. I'm not really much for showing lots of pictures of people's weddings.. you don't know them and it was the traditional attire and customs. But I did think these two little angels waiting for the reception were snap worthy.

Then we had a visit from Hurricane Ike. Now we live in northeastern Ohio, so we have never actually experienced a hurricane before that I can remember. Yes, we've had tornadoes, and they are devastating. But the winds we had on Sunday night lasted four hours, and I have never seen anything like it. Someone said we had two 91 mph gusts, but mostly it was just steady high winds. Almost immediately the power went out.. so we lit some candles and got out some flashlights..
The next day our power went off and came back on all through the day, but we didn't get Internet connection back until late Tuesday. We were very very lucky to have our electricity restored.. there are still 12,000 customers in Ohio that are without power. Nothing like Texas though. My heart goes out to those folks. We did not lose any trees either.. the worst was a branch that fell from the oak in the backyard.. (sorry about the shadows)..
But two blocks up the street two huge pines fell on a fence..
And while driving around this week, I saw many trees down.. some of them were huge.

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One of my hobbies.. and sometimes this becomes an obsession, is the Family Tree. Genealogy research can absorb my thoughts and time for days and even weeks. This was one of those weeks. I had received some new information on one side of the family, and there were some questions that went along with that. So I had to go searching. I know it is maybe morbid to show a picture of a cemetery, but you can really learn a lot by studying the markers. And personally I think there is something very beautiful about them.

Today it is beautiful and sunny. The air is very fresh and clean..and the color is just starting to show in some of the leaves. This is one of our blueberry bushes we planted in the spring. I had no idea it would turn this beautiful shade..
And this bush in the back yard is loaded with red berries for the birds to enjoy all winter..
My rock garden rooster says hello, and hopes you are all having good days. I don't think he is really considered vintage, so I'm afraid I have to skip VTT this week. And I will try and get around to visit, but we have another wedding to attend this weekend, and a houseful of people coming so somebody should probably clean.