pumpkin patch

Saturday I went to my favorite orchard with the intention 

of picking apples, but it was so crowded I bought some in the 

farm shop and made for the pumpkin patch further down the road.

The three beautiful Clydesdales pulled a wagon 

full of hay and visitors around 'None Such Farm.'

I loved the jingling of their harness and the thunder

of their hooves as they trotted along side the fields.

Three pumpkins found their way home with me.

(one orange, one white and the variegated one shown)

Soon I'll be carving their faces and roasting the seeds.

The grey wrap is my latest weaving project.

(Again, I'm found out in the park dressing trees!)

A young man and his dog couldn't help but stare

as I smiled and wished them a good day.

It's back to work tomorrow....but I've had a wonderful week

spent outdoors and surrounded by yarn.

xo, j

marjorie kinnan rawlings home

garden outside the kitchen

typewriter on the front screened porch

peeking through a high and tiny closet window

workshop in the barn

We visited the home of author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in Cross Creek.

She is best known for her novel The Yearling about a boy who adopts 

an orphaned fawn and for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.

Unfortunately the home was not open for tours 

so I had to peek my camera up against window screens!

I like to think the area hasn't changed too much since she lived there.

A few more homes and the paving of the road perhaps,

but it's still considered rural Florida and for that I love it.