I can’t believe how well the cannas did this year! Last year I planted several bulbs, and they came up, but didn’t do anything. This year, they must have been happy, because a couple of them reached 7 feet tall, and they all bloomed their silly heads off.
Miss Brown was a sad, sick puppy today. She’s feeling better now. And, of course, she’s decided to commandeer all the pillows on my bed.
Fifteen of the last twenty visits to my blog were from people searching for information on the Ingalls family. That post is over three years old, and it is still, by a huge margin, the most popular on my blog. I think that’s kind of amazing. And weird.
Sweet William (Dianthus)
Duck Pond
Coral
Taken this afternoon on one of my house sitting runs.
I love this image and the fact that in 1910 Bloomington, Indiana, was at the center of the country’s population.
![The Center of Population of U.S. [man standing next to memorial stone] (LOC)](https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2316/2163538660_fa72625ef4_z.jpg?zz=1)
The Center of Population of U.S. [man standing next to memorial stone] (Library of Congress)
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09549
Call Number: LC-B2- 2262-10
Believe it or not, after a grim start, it cleared up later in the day.
I love how the buildings change color over the course of the morning, from gold to silver.
I’m trying to do NaNoWriMo again this year. I’m not getting much done during the week, but I am getting enough written each day that I should be able to get caught up on the weekends. We’ll see.
gel pen and ballpoint pen in steno pad
4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
I forgot my new doodling pen at home and had to use ballpoint. Ugh. Ballpoint is not only messy, but it takes more hand pressure and is more time consuming, so I didn’t cover as much acreage as I would have if the blue area had been done with gel pen.’
November 6, 1921 from Mamma
November 12, 1921 from Clark
November 13, 1921 from Papa to Clark (Enclosed with November 15 letter from Clark)
November 13, 1921 from Warren to Clark (Enclosed with November 15 letter from Clark)
November 15, 1921 from Clark
red paper boat 