This is a Juried Craft show, and all 'good stuff"  I liked the smaller crowd on a working day.  Would walk, sit on a bench and have people come over to pet Mimi.   Had to laugh when several women said I used her for a magnet.  I agreed, said they would ignore the old guy on the bench.

Sato...
...love your Autumnal coloured leaves...

Jack wv...
...the lay-out of the craft show is identical to the craft shows we have over here in UK, sadly been some time since I last visited one, I used to go to several and always enjoyed them, even though we hardly bought anything worthwhile apart from food produce, meat pies and cheeses...

Jack...
...seems like your " magnet " is working...

Sato,  beautiful picture from your wife's collection.

Thanks for sharing.

Joy

Sato, love the Swans and the Begonia.   Just viewed your video with all the flower photos, excellent.

Sato, beautiful begonia and swans.  We have some artificial swans on our pond to keep away the Canada geese.  Unfortunately, they don't work too good, but they're fun to watch.  From my deck, they look almost real.

Mary Ann

Head to the park a little earlier each days and dread daylight savings.   Not much color, and the hanging baskets are coming down.  Do like the mums used in the clock.

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I like the way they've incorporated the mums into the clock.  Nice fall colors too.

Jack. you are so lucky to have such a beautiful park near you.

Nita, I like the dark mums for the hours.  Lin I have been going to the park for around 57 years and weather permitting almost daily the last 30, weather permitting.   Never tire of the view.

Okay, Shrink would not resize because the photo out of the camera was TOO LARGE, (over 6 GB), so I opened the newer version
of PSP & managed to resize... a real guessing game.  Here's my bougainvillea with 2 colors... "Boogie 2". 

Shirley thanks for sticking to it.  Beautiful blooms.

Haha, thanks, Jack, my brain is tired & I need a nap!  I did get rid of whatever the pop up on the little 12" laptop was, let Avast update to a new version & in the process, it cleaned up the problem.  BUT... PSP would not open on it!  I tried every way to get it to work but no way.  That is still XP so not sure what it will take to get PSP to work again. If I uninstall & re-install I will lose the settings from long ago & that is what I do not know how to do with the newer versions.  I forgot that I'd tried with this FZ 70 to use Shrink... files too big so I think I cropped before & made it work.  In this case I wanted to show the parchment color & the new color so couldn't crop.  Cats waiting for their supper... one has been in & back out but guess the other 2 are upset because I didn't walk them down to the river. 

Here's one of the little critters that run all over St. Elmo (a ghost town in Colorado).  Lots of tourists buy the sunflower seeds from the little store to feed them. Note how full his cheeks are. The store is filled with antiques of all types, plus the usual T-shirts, etc., and rents 4-wheelers. 
 

Shirley another great shot.
That is a great camera and know  you want good photos but 6mb is overdoing it.  You are going to be busy with psp.

Posting one of my critters.  It was 3mb so able to resize on line.

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Shirley, those are the colors of the bougainvillea I had and I think I had only one main root.  It may be the nature of the beast to have the two colors.  I was so proud of my plant and when I had it on my deck, I would see hummingbirds come to it.  I don't know why the plant died, but maybe it was old because I had it three, four or five years and kept it inside in the winter.  I know you are enjoying your plant.

Mary Ann

Thanks, Mary Ann.  My youngest son gave it to me for Mother's Day & bought a nice brass pot for the other pot to sit in.  Won't be long it will need a bigger pot.  I am surprised it has done so well with these dark tinted storm windows & doors.  I did give it a little Miracle Grow today, the blossoms are smaller than the original ones. Did yours have both colors?  I've never had one before, this didn't have directions where to put in sun or shade & what type plant food.  Advice welcome!

Jack, your critter looks like mine.  Some call them ground squirrels & some called them chipmunks .. & when I Googled chipmunk cheeks, the photos do look like our photos.  The original photo of the chipmunk was 6.44 MB.  Did I say GB earlier?  Sorry... not the same, huh?     Shrink pics would not resize it, anyway. 

I bought a 4" memory foam mattress topper for the RV... it is king size. The mattress is like ones we had years ago before inner springs, that fabric stuffing that I haven't slept on in a long time.  I like a firm bed but this wasn't comfy when I didn't have on all the padding of sweat pants & hoodie like when it's cold in CO.  Been quite a chore to get it in & puffed up so I can put cover & sheets & comforter back on... plus the extra thick sheet over everything for cats to sleep on.  Plenty big for the cages to sit on one side, have to put them in cages when the slide goes in & out for fear they can get into the mechanism.  Gap on both sides as it moves.   

Beautiful plant Shirley! My guess is that the white was grafted on a stronger  peach stem that is more resistant and this gave the new colored shoot.  Anyway it loves sun and will be more colored in it.

I never heard of a bougainvillea  dying unless it froze to death or maybe in a drought...  They are so hardy.

I have never seen critters like those with the long stripes. Can they be tamed?

Sato, stupendous!  Is that just one mum plant? So plentiful and the red is so vibrant - I bet it would win first prize in an exhibition.

The woods would make a great print, even on dress material.  Mmm... I'd love to have a T-shirt like that, it would brighten the day

Sato, beautiful, hope we see some of that color this fall.

Bubble the chipmunks are a small member of the squirrel family, cute to look at but a pest.  See many around the park hiding in the rock walls. I have to hang on to Mimi when she spots one. 

Beautiful photos.  Love all the colors.

Bubble, have you ever "played" with textile painting?  I used to buy regular textile paints until they came up with a "medium" that let regular acrylic or oil paints to be used (mixed with the medium) and can be washed over & over without fading or flaking off.  I have a very old sweatshirt (hoodie) that I painted years ago, can't count how many times it's been through the washer & dryer.... fabric is starting to get threadbare but paint still intact.  At the same time I painted sweats for the grands & a special sweatshirt for my daughter (that she requested).  Such a lot of fun & know you would be great at it.  Not sure about those critters being tamed, but they are not afraid of people and will climb up a pant leg looking for more food, scares some people.  I have photos of my sons when they were 12 & 14 years old, sitting on some old boards, with the little critters crawling all over them begging... the boys are in their 50s now and still get a kick out of them every year when we go.

Sato, beautiful photos!  Is that the Japanese maple with the colorful leaves?  My brother has one near his front entrance, I just visited them last week end but it was not turning color yet.  My neighbor has a pot of mums like those, looks like the plants were trimmed by an expert.  What few mums I have growing are starting to bloom, I let them grow tall and will take a big bouquet to put in my parents vase on their graves.  My mother loved fresh flowers so when I have anything in bloom I always share with them. Any time I visit I take artificial flowers when I don't have anything growing, they are buried about 200 miles from where I live. 

Jack, the big cottonwood trees are starting to turn at the top, so far just a cross of yellow & green.  One tree not far from me always turns first and every year will be a bright gold on top and bottom half will be just as vivid green.  Most of the other trees are kind of a dry brown instead of getting color so a few weeks will tell.

Sure enjoy looking at the photos.

"medium" that let regular acrylic  paints to be used on material?  I never heard of it, I would love it! Wjat is it called?
I did quite a lot of batik when it was popular: tablecloth, cushions, even paintings to be framed. But it is messy work, with the wax to be melted by ironing.

I tried painting on T-shirts with special textile felt pens, but it does not give the same satisfaction as really painting.  I did decorate the front of white blouses, or the collar and pocket of white shirts and that looks quite good, if I say so, a little like embroidery.

I went to Dick Blick site (art supplies) & found they carry this... https://www.dickblick.com/products/liquitex-fabric-medium/ maybe you can find something like it at your art supply stores, I didn't see if they have a medium for oils.  Was probably about 40 years ago that I did the sweat shirts for everyone.  At that time people offered to pay me $50 to paint one for them but my reply was, "only if they would buy the sweatshirt they wanted, washed & ironed it to get the sizing out"... that way if it did shrink they could not be angry with me!  I never liked commission work because it is too hard to read someone's mind & please them!  Your gr-son would be delighted with a "hand painted" original from you! 

Sato, that is a cute photo.  Looks like hanging plush toys.