In late, breaking news, I got the cranberry bead garlands put up on the tree. I've been collecting them for years. Just the dark red, wooden kind. They're not so easy to find. I had just enough! So, you can relax about that, now.And the fun never stops! Here are a couple of pics of the frost on the oak leaves and manzanita bushes!
And more mushroom photography! Actually, I love the frost. So sparkly. And the mushrooms. There was a yearly workshop last Friday night and all day Saturday in mushroom hunting that I didn't have time to attend. They found 150 kinds in the woods not far from here, last year! I'm SO going, next time! 
Rachel's going through reentry from her European journey. She has one of her signature nasty colds, for one thing. She's staying with friends, in Boston, at the moment. And, won't have any solid idea of where to put down roots until spring, when she figures out where she'll be going to school. So, in a way, she'll still be a ramblin' rose, for awhile, yet, jumping around from place to place. Much of the winter will find her in California, I think. Hey, and if you haven't checked out her blog, in a while, she's updated her travel entries. So cool!
