Autumn Shoes

Last weekend I scored these brand new, Autumn colored shoes

at a thrift store. This is my first outing in them.

Scenes around Troy.

It is sunny. We had one day of stormy rain and wind,

a big shift in the weather.

We are back to sun but it is no longer warm.

The high is supposed to be 50° today!

Time to fire up the woodstove.

O say can you see....

 BAM!

 The Bombs bursting in air.

The Troy Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration!

Pollen

 Not the greatest shots but this might help to illustrate the chartreuse powder

that is covering everything right now.

I looked out the window the other evening when I had just arrived home

from work and I thought the neighbors were burning because this cloud of "smoke" was drifting across the yard about eye level.

Turns out it was a thick cloud of pollen!

We made foot prints when walking on the porch, it was so dusty!

It is a lovely color that the fotos don't depict, glorious chartreuse.

I got the outside decks and furniture cleaned, now for the inside, ugh!