absolutely gorgeous day…

took a walk to the grocery store to pick up a few things for tomorrow’s dinner…

came across this beautiful tree… admired it when I passed it the first time and had to stop to take a picture when I came back…

  
also got a shot of some Virginia creeper berries…

  
there aren’t any leaves left on them… that frost last week did a lot of plants in…

the ladybugs have been out in full force for the last few days… yesterday there were five at once on the bedroom window…

today they were on the door when I left the house, landed on me as I was walking and were inside and outside the house…

   

not sure why they are everywhere… from a bit of reading it looks like the warm weather might have woken them up from hibernation…

I also spent some time preparing vegetables, more stuffing and cranberry sauce…

  
friends are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary which made me spend a bit of time remembering ours… it was when I was in hospital with pancreatitis and waiting for gall bladder surgery… we had missed a trip to the coast to see the kids because I got sick…

on our anniversary George brought in a basket with 40 roses in it… it was amazing… at night they had to put it into the hall because the perfume was so strong, lol… he was such a romantic…

good times…