Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy this week for Nature Friday~~

We have had a very windy week here with leaves blowing everywhere and the temps feeling colder than the thermometer reads.

We discovered a Queen Anne's Lace still in bloom~

The Bittersweet berries are here!

This house has really nice Autumn decorations~

I got an invitation to a Mad Hatter Tea Party that's happening today from Juney and Miss Ann.

Of course, I said yes.   This party will be the best ever and I'm hoping to see lots of my friends there☺

I'm off~~

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

The Duke of Wallingford

Wordy Wednesday

 Who wants to go shopping with me?   There will be lunch too.

See ya soon!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Weekend Walk on Monday

 We have to show you Farmer Will's field first.   This is Saturday, which was a gloomy humid morning~

This is Sunday morning, which was cold and frosty and sunny~

Saturday was all about looking for Autumn colors~

Sunday was all about the frost~

Frost on the Sedum~

Frost on the mum and a tomato, which still looks good enough to eat!

Look what I found!

Mom wouldn't let me take it as kids live across the street and the ball probably belongs to them.   Besides, it's plastic and isn't totally interesting.  

It's so strange to see an Iris coming into bloom in October~

Happy Monday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Silent Saturday Art

 

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Duke

Nature Friday

 We are joining Rosy today for Nature Friday~~

The Autumn colors continue to brighten!

We discovered very pretty mums this week~

We delivered Landlady Maryann's mail and we found that her Quince was blooming!

Check out this creepy guy!

We found Mr and Mrs Spider on their web~

Have you ever seen a pink lady spider before?

Happy Friday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke

Wordless Wednesday

 

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Duke

Tasty Tuesday

 Mom had some apple cider that she wanted to use up and she found this recipe that she wanted to try~

Pumpkin Apple Cider Bread or Muffins

ingredients

• 1cup apple cider
• 1cup canned pumpkin puree
• 2 large eggs
• 1⁄4cup vegetable oil
• 3⁄4cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 2tablespoons freshly grated orange zest
• 2cups all-purpose flour
• 2teaspoons double-acting baking powder
• 1⁄2teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4teaspoon ground mace
• 1⁄4teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄8teaspoon ground cloves
• 1⁄2cup chopped walnuts

directions

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In saucepan, boil cider until it's reduced to about 1/4 cup; let it cool.
• In bowl, whisk together well pumpkin purée, eggs, oil, brown sugar, zest, and cider.
• In bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, mace, cinnamon and cloves.
• Add the walnuts; stir batter just until combined.
• Pour batter to a well-buttered 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" loaf pan.
• Bake in middle of oven 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean.
• Let bread cool in the pan.

We're boiling the 1 cup of apple cider to reduce it to 1/4 cup.  In all honesty,  mom didn't notice the muffins tasting more apple than pumpkin and the cider didn't thicken so she won't be doing the boiling again.  

I got to taste the pumpkin puree!

I got to taste the muffin batter too!

So we made muffins instead of bread in a loaf pan and mom also used dried cranberries instead of walnuts.  The muffins are just out of the oven.  They are such a pretty Autumn color!

Time for me to tasteTest!

They are excellent and not overly sweet!

We will be making this recipe again!

Happy Tuesday!

Love ya lots♥

Duke