Happy Halloween 2020

No tricks, just a treat: this is Tallulah Mae being what she really was, the most loving/cutest/sweetest/funniest/goofiest/nuttiest dog ever. She is missed every single day, but always remembered with a smile.

 

Tallulah-Palooza Memories: Acting

Trying out to be a department store Santa.

Body double for Tallulah Bankhead.

Applying for job as camp counselor.

Modeling a spring line of babushkas.

Auditioning for position as contortionist in a Cirque du Soleil production.

Just...judging you.

Avoiding the paparazzi.

 Posing for an author photo for a book jacket.

Ben

 That is all: my sweet doggy friend Ben. 

Green and Orange

 Another grasshopper, this one hanging out on my marigolds. Grasshoppers really are fascinating--look how long the antennae are on this one.

El Grande

This bad boy weighs two and a half pounds! Amazing...

The latest harvest, with at least as many still on the tree. It's a bonanza year for pomegranates, for sure. (B. has been carefully tending them...)
 

Nursery Time

 

Even a quick pop into the nursery yields delights. 

A hummingbird...

A goldfinch...

And a bee girl. 

Tallulah-Palooza Memories: Celebrities

 Lawrence of Arabia.

Janis Joplin.

Rosie the Riveter.

Lucifer.

Marie Antoinette at a Versailles Halloween party.

Mr. DeMille

 A bromeliad bloom ready for its close-up...

Pomspritz

A delicious pomegranate spritzer with juice from our very own pomegranates. Yum!
 

Crescent

 I love a good crescent moon...

At the Car Wash (Keep Those Waxin' Machines Comin')

Abstract!

Psychedelic!

P.S. Title of this post is lyrics from this song...remember when?

Tallulah-Palooza Memories: Personas

English banker.

Hawaiian tourist.

Happy lion.

Grumpy lion.
 

French sailor.

Girl reporter.

Fun Fall Outing: Part Two

Pumpkin patches, so photogenic! (That beauty above came home with us!)

Yummy (non-alcoholic) spritzer on a hot day...
 

Fun Fall Outing: Part One

We went on a Fun Fall Outing on Saturday to a market that billed itself as a vintage/antique market. Mostly it was decorative rusty "shabby chic" stuff--we didn't buy anything, which is a statement on the goods on offer--but it was fun to get out and have a look around.

 

Oh Hell Yes!

I have voted, I have taken my ballot to the Registrar of Voters, and it has been received. Oh. Hell. Yes!

 

Cake Collab

B. and I worked together to make this yummy apple cake. We wanted a cake with real apples in it (not applesauce) and this one fit the bill. 

And it has yummy cream cheese caramel frosting...

Bonus apple random heart!