"November always seemed to me, the Norway of the year" ``Emily Dickinson

November has been a bit November-ish if you know what I mean.

Today it felt like ...

All the leaves are brown....

and the sky is gray...



There is a special subtle beauty in November, once the

lovely flashiness of September and October color is over and

the world becomes a symphony of neutrals.

outdoor projects started

and put on hold as life invariably gets in the way

There is always something that needs doing and it isn't always what a person

thought they were going to do, is it?

heavy clouds



Since I took this picture, this old house has been demolished.

sad, really isn't it?

 

whenever I see a house in this sort of abandoned state I want more than

anything to go inside and see what it looks like in there

There was an abandoned house kitty corner across the road from my grandparents farm

when I was small.  I remember going inside with my twin aunts.  How cool were they to

let a 10 or so year old tag along?  I remember there were still old

dishes in the kitchen, not in usable condition, but still they were sitting

there, on the table and the counter top.  There was a very old faded

print on the wall above the table too.  Or am I imagining that I remember that?

We didn't touch anything, or rescue any of the dishes or the picture. 

We just quietly went back to grandmas.