Happy Thanksgiving!

It's holiday Monday in Canada. Happy Thanksgiving! The news is overwhelming, around the world. I just cringe. I am thankful for all we have.

I finished this felted piece. I couldn't manage their design, so I made it up myself. My crafty grandies approved. It is a bright spot of colour.

We have sent it to my D-I-L in Vancouver. They had to put down her 16-year-old cat, and I know how that feels. What a blessing these pets are in our lives. Her FB post was poignant, and reflects the gratitude she felt beginning as a single woman in her partnership with Dora, and being her partner through all those years.

We woke to the possibility of storms in Ontario. Yes, that came to fruition. Northern Ontario has snow. Thanksfully (new word, A/C, these typos can be creative), we only had rain. The blue is snow. The remnants of hurricane Philippe sent the storm into a counter clockwise direction. Then the part on the left is going south. 

🐸 Now, I know this is a gray tree frog. They do change colour, just to fool amateurs. I encouraged it to get off the deck, and head for the foliage where it will seek shelter over winter. The temperatures are going down, and it is time to nestle. This morning it is 7 C., and I think that is the last we will see or hear of them for the winter. 

🐍 I submitted both spider and snake sightings to iNaturalist. I had the snakes wrong, they are Northern Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis saurita ssp. septentrionalis), not 'eastern.'

I was given the correct species! It's a crap shoot some days!

🕷Marbled Orbweaver (Araneus marmoreus) AKA Charlie! She has decided she likes the corner and the little shelf the previous owners made for the tree frog.

I tried several times to photograph this spider. It could well be the same species. There are lots of cobwebs on the front deck. I went out at 6 a.m., to check on the rain situation. I figure I might as well let them eat, and once we get frost, and they seek shelter, I'll sweep all these cobwebs away at that time. 

I liked the pop of colour on a cool, rainy morning. 

Creeping bellflower. I thought I'd pulled it all, but I missed some. They are terribly invasive. I am mostly done with the garden. 

I wandered about with the zoom lens, and I think this a worthwhile shot. Most of my shots aren't that great, but I do like to document my days, to realize how much fun I had. 

We are up to 14 frogs in the goldfish pond. Since we are getting rain, I'll move them to the frog pond (filling as I write) after the weekend. They will be much happier there, since the shallow, hand dug pond freezes in winter. Well, with climate change it freezes and thaws, which truly isn't good for frogs or fishes.