Autumn at Our New Place to Live

I am a bit late posting this, since we had almost an inch of snow fall the other night, and most of the lovely leaves have now fallen from the trees, but just a couple of weeks ago this is what it looked like in our new yard! For those of you who have kept up with us, you know that a "new back yard" was a long time coming, and is such a blessing!

The crape myrtle tree in our front yard...it was gorgeous!  In the foreground is a Japanese maple.

 Another shot of the crape myrtle.

 A closeup of the leaves.

 Another Japanese maple.

A tree across the fence in the back.

And two cute little Carolina Chickadees who make a home in our yard and in the yard next door!  They like our tossed-away boxes!  I guess it's warm inside with the crumpled paper.  And they come and look in the windows sometimes.  So cute....we're glad to share our new home with them!

Ugly Eggs

Our good friend has a farm, and he shares eggs with us from time to time.  The last two dozen he offered us, he asked if we minded "ugly eggs."  He said when the chickens get older thay sometimes start laying really big eggs with wrinkled shells, but the eggs are just as good to eat.  So, we got us some "ugly eggs."

Here I placed one of the small ones next to a regular large farm egg, and also next to one of the large ugly eggs! Interesting comparison.....

I decided it was time to make an omelet!!!

And here is my "ugly omelet" next to two "ugly potato pancakes!" :-)

 And one very satisfied customer!