Things I Love Thursdays

mmmmm
I love these colours!

This is the view over the South Saskatchewan River Sunday evening.  I love how the prairie sun can get lower and lower and things begin to glow.  I love how the water appears orange.  Just to show you that I didn't edit the photo, here is the perspective from the side of the bank where I was, out of the sunlight.

I love it!  It's like two different worlds.  I think it confused my camera.

I love Autumn evenings.  And the best thing was that these images were all taken in the city.  Yup.  The far end of Spadina Crescent - we stopped to play at Meewasin Park.  See the fencing and the cyclists up on the bike paths?

I love that I have every single shade of pinkish, brownish, orangish, greenish, greyish that is in there. I even see purplish.  These will be terrific to stitch up!

Happy Thursday to you.  I hope Autumn is bringing wonder to your world.

Things I Love Thursday

I'm not really ready for the cold.  However, one or two overnight frosts have began to transform the land into it's pretty autumn colours.  I love the colours!  Last year's fall was long and dry.  This year is different.  Things are still green but now there's this blast of deep dark orange and crimson.

I love my puppy.  His name is Buddy, a Border Collie.  I told you about him.  He's the nicest, sweetest doggie ever.  He takes me for morning walks.  I love him for that.  It's been too long away from the trails.  I love that I get to enjoy the change of scenery up close and personal.  Every morning, the colours are a little deeper.

near Sutherland Beach

I am still loving the weekend I had at the workshop.  It's inspiring so many ideas.  That's good - as an artist... but not so great as an artist with no studio.  My husband joked before I left for the weekend, "maybe I'll get the floor done while you're gone."  We laughed.  AS IF.  Then I came home to it started!  I LOVE MY FLOOR!

Floors = omg I can move my furniture in!!!

We were having some issues with slopes and dips even after leveling.  There's just not enough money or headspace for a subfloor.  The rest of the basement is carpet on underlay with no subfloor.  So he came to the conclusion that we need carpet.  I googled flooring and found this "LVP" (haha - luxury vinyl plank) which lies nicely and is not damaged by water.  It's a floating floor and so durable and scrub-able.  It comes in any wood grain and texture, even stone and cork look-alikes.  I am glad we found the one that looks like the hickory wood I had my heart set on.  Sweet.

There you go - a little inspiration from the changing colours. 

Enjoy your weekend.  I will be painting 100 feet of baseboards with a big smile on my face!