friday's fringe 28 ~ lake collage & bye-bye bones!

YES, this is friday's fringe...on thursday.
but it IS friday somewhere...on the other side of the world.

tomorrow morning i have an app't at the dreaded dentist.
(last week a client gave me a mini twix bar. while eating it, i felt something hard between my teeth.
hmmmmmmm, a rock in my twix bar.

nope.  a tooth.  the one i had a root canal done on not too long ago.
it just broke off! shit! at the gum line! surgery tomorrow morn. double shit!!)

i've been pretty stressed.
a perfect thriller for halloween.
aaaaaaargh!!
FEAR!
(the one good thing is that i'll have to rest for a day...time to catch up with reading...)


back to the friday on thursday post...

last weekend...
we went camping/fishing to Rodman Dam/Reservoir (AKA Lake Ocklawaha)

SUNRISE on the lake

SO many pictures...thought i'd just do a collage

the lake: bald eagles, cormorants, anhingas, herons, sunrise, grackles, dragonflies, butterfly, egrets

CLICK for LARGER view

oOo

mr bOnes.  his final october post.

soon it'll be time for all his buddies to go back in the closet.

but mr bOnes will remain perched on the mantel- all year long.

he and his bony friends have been gathering...

telling ghostly stories...shaking their bones...pulling pranks

and just being a little mischievous before they head into hiding. 

“That cold ain’t the weather, that’s death approaching.”

30 Days of Night (2007)

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lk

counting down...to...

ALL HALLOW'S EVE.  HALLOWEEN.  NIGHT OF THE SPIRITS.

HAVE A MAGICAL & SPOOKY NIGHT.

a new beginning. out with the old, in with the new.

remembering & honoring those that have passed on.

friday's fringe 27 ~ mr bOnes' zebras

after today, mr bOnes has just ONE more friday in october.
this past week he was spell-bound by all the butterflies.

mr bOnes perched on the front door

and the original...

(it's been a busy week. not much time spent on the computer. 

you know i don't have a 'smart' phone or i pad...

i don't work in an office so i can't get on the comp while working...

and i rarely turn the comp on at home in the evening, except weekends.

SO, next week i'll have a lot of catching up to do!)

friday morning (today, THIS morning if you're reading this on 10-19) 

we're leaving to go camping & fishing for 2 nights.

yay!  no phone.  no internet.  

mr bOnes has been delegated to keep watch over the old homestead while we're gone.

we can only hope he's never watched 

"Risky Business", "Animal House",  "Ferris Beuler's Day Off"  or even  "Scream".

or we may come home to complete madness...

the house, the yard, the woods...littered with

passed out zombies, drunk vamps, toasted trolls, plastered mummies, 

stoned werewolves, inebriated goblins, sloshed shape-shifters.

limbs and bones...scattered everywhere!

oh, i don't even want to think about it.

let's just hope, if mr bOnes DOES party...he parties safe and responsibly!

(just like the beer commercial tells you to)

oOo

 "Ah, I can always smell a graveyard."

Gabriel  (actor: Christopher Walken), The Prophecy – 1995

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lk

friday's fringe 26 ~ more from mr bOnes

(reminder - mr bOnes is hosting october's 'friday's fringe'.)

mr bOnes is not very good with all this technology stuff,

so he's basically just posing for the pictures 

and letting me know which ones to post.

mr bones does a lot of pointing with those bony fingers.  
sign language of the dead.
he's kind of hard to understand.  he's like a ventriloquist.
his lips don't move when he speaks.

'friday's fringe' is normally just ONE,  maybe TWO pictures...

but this october,   nothing is 'normal'.

all year mr bOnes sits up there on the mantel, riding the back of a gargoyle.
this is about the only time of the year he gets down and does some wandering.

so this month he can get away with anything!
well, almost anything!

since he's much lower to the ground than i am...being only 9" tall...

he sees things from a different perspective.

the first thing he spotted was this deer impression in the driveway's dirt-

then, he noticed this fungi growing on a downed tree...

which we have a lot of around here.

he can't wait 'til we light up the burn barrel...

he's such a pyro!!

when he spotted this patch of tiny mushrooms...

he was so over-joyed, he started doing cartwheels & headstands!!

and then he gobbled them all up.

he was stuffed.

he wanted to rest.

so we headed toward the front door...stopping in the garden by the front porch.

"i believe i'll just hang out here 'til next friday.  screw the mantel!"

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lk  and mr bOnes

“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep.”

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

friday's fringe 25 ~ mr bOnes

how could i say no.

it's october and mr bOnes wanted to do this week's 'friday's fringe'.

in fact, he wants to cover every friday this month.

he begged.

nothing worse than a begging skeleton.

last year, in october of 2011...mr bOnes made his debut in a post:

from the clouds to the moon with mr bones

first we went out back, and as soon as he saw this red mushroom...
he just had to have his picture taken with it!

and then he devoured it!!

............

i followed him out front, where he plopped himself in the fluffy 'blue mist'...

and we had a photo shoot.

he liked this one the best.

i did suggest that he roll around in the dirt first...
get a little muddy...maybe jump on the grill and get a little blackened...
i mean, you gotta admit, he is a bit clean looking for a skeleton!

but he sure is happy.  it's like that smile is pasted on his face.
is it a smile?  or more like a sneer?

 “If you look in the mirror and you say his name 5 times, 

he'll appear behind you breathing down your neck.”

Candyman (1992)  (Claire)

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from clouds to the moon with mr. bOnes

aaaaaaah. big sigh.

they're out of the box.

sitting on the mantel...making their presence known.

each year at this time...when Mr  bOnes comes out of the closet...

he likes to go outside and explore with me.

he's your average happy-go-lucky skeleton.

i mean...just look at that permanent grin plastered on his face!

he NEVER frowns!

when we got outside...the first thing Mr BoNES wanted to do

was lie down on the ground...and look up at the sky.

DO YOU SEE WHAT WE SAW?!!

a bunny with his ears missing!

he then spotted a 'green lynx' spider on the front porch...

and then a garden  'argiope spider' clinging to her rain & wind battered web...

Mr bOnes likes to climb trees. after all he's only 8½ inches tall.

so now and then he likes to get a different view on things.

here, he's using woodpecker holes as his foot holds.

from up there he spotted this earth star fungi...

and this Buckeye Butterfly.

by now old BoNES is starting to poop out! 

nothing worse than watching a skeleton drag himself across the ground...

so he found a nice spot, and while he rests...i'll go look for more cool stuff.

What did the skeleton say to the bartender?

I'd like a beer and a mop! 

(HIS joke...not mine...)

Blue Mist (should be named Lilac Mist) (after the rain), a florida native

a skinny little green Anole/lizard

lichen growing all along the roots of a dead tree

this next wildflower took me hours to try and identify.
in fact...i never did...i ended up emailing the picture to one of the blogs i follow...
Growin' Wild - Florida Natives
they were kind enough to ID it for me!!

Desmodium Tenuifolium

i lOve this little delicate flower!!  the color! the detail! it looks like a tiny face.

Desmodium Tenuifolium

OK...here he is...BoNES is back...just in time to say Bye!

look at him, will ya'. he's climbed into one of my bone baskets.

that doesn't surprise me. i bet he feels at home there!

so we leave you with a parting moon shot.

no, don't worry...you can uncover your eyes...

we're NOT going to MOON you.

moon shot taken on 10.06.2011   7:46pm

tonight the moon is 98% lit!!

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.  

~George Carlin 

By The Way...if you're into...uh...creepy graphics...

check out my NEW page up there...when you have time.

'a little macabre'

have a good week. stay safe.

laura