More Autumn Color on Nature Friday

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville.  Today we have the second Friday in our November Autumn Nature Friday series!

As you might have guessed, most of our Autumn pictures are coming from the ABQ Botanical Gardens where the foliage is in full color!

Today, along with this pretty view, we have some cool Autumn berries.

Some bright red berries really make themselves seen among the yellow leaves.

While others try to camouflage themselves!

This year, Autumn seems to be lasting a bit longer, or maybe it is because it really didn't start to get a bunch cooler until the end of October....

It's funny how some berries like to "hang out" by themselves....

Yet, other berries like to hang out together in a crowd!

Let's wrap things up with this berry eating Red Robin. I bet he reeeaaallllyyyy enjoys berry season BOL!

Thanks for joining us for a bit of berry peeping! 

Do you have Fall (or Spring in some places) berries in your corner of Blogville??

We hope all of our friends get to experience some kind of nature this weekend!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful Balloon Wrap Up Thursday

Our Thankful Thursday this week comes mostly from Mama and Daddy. They were both very thankful they stayed in ArCee for the Balloon Fiesta this year and were lucky enough to see balloons floating right over ArCee on their final morning!

The winds blew in just the right direction giving the pawrents prime seating for a balloon parade!

So many RVs and so many cool balloons!

Smokey the Bear even flew over ArCee, how cool is that?!

Mama and Daddy (along with Sunny and I) were very happy that we girls decided to stay home. As much as Mama and Daddy loved the balloon parade, I know I (Rosy) would not have liked it at all and Sunny would have barked....A LOT.

It was a thankful and more thankful win for everypuppy and human.

Here is a video/slideshow of some of the balloons the pawrents saw.

Thank you for joining us again this year for a look at the Fiesta balloons!

Sunny and I have special weekends coming up we are thankful for this week too! I am thankful I am getting a pawrents and just me ArCee trip this weekend. We are heading to see the UFOs in Roswell!!

Sunny says to tell you she is thankful she doesn't have to sit in ArCee for 87 hours and is getting a Special Nanny K weekend! 

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop 

Birdy Fun on BWW

 

One of the cool things about the change of seasons are the cool winter birdies returning. This year we even have a couple of new birdies on the seed block that TC captured:

Another reason Autumn is our favorite season.

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

Travel Tuesday - Galluping in Gallup

 

In October we took ArCee to Gallup, NM for weekend of sightseeing, train watching and family time!

The pawrents had a great time walking around town. 

Mama found some cool murals....

...she even found lighthouse!!

Daddy found a new friend who pointed out a UFO...

He also found a train track....

Checkout the trains Daddy saw in the video above!

USA RV Park was fun too and we had lots of time for lots of family walks. We even got to visit with some bears!

The weather was a bit chilly, but the sun was out and the skies sure were pretty! 

Thank you for joining us as we looked back on this fun town. We give Gallup, NM a 10 out of 10 review and we will definitely be back!!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week! 

Snuggly Sunny

  

Chilly morning Sunny Snuggles

We're also joining Comedy Plus for the 

Awww Monday Blog Hop! 

Nature Friday - November Autumn Series

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville.  Today we are kicking off our November Autumn Nature Friday series. We will have some pictures each Friday this month showing what Fall has been looking like around our corner of Blogville!

Starting this week with a look some colorful leaves!

From beautiful reds

to greens and orange

Even the cottonwood leaves have turned a vibrant yellow

For awhile there, we didn't think we would get any color.  We had a dry summer followed by record breaking rains in October.

Japanese maples turning red...

Look at the pretty dark yellow veins in this leaf!

Leaf peeping may be one of Mama's favorite things about Autumn!

We'll wrap things up with this artsy picture Mama took.

Thank you for joining us for a look at the different leaves we have been seeing in our corner of Blogville.

Are the leaves changing colors where you live??

We hope all our friends get to experience some kind of nature this weekend!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful Thursday - Happy Landings

During the Balloon Fiesta this year, one of the coolest balloons was a cluster of helium balloons designed by balloon pilot, Jonathon Trappe.

Trappe wanted to recreate the type of balloon cluster that they

had in the 2009 Pixar movie, Up.

Volunteers started showing up at 1:30am the night before to fill the 94 helium balloons needed for the 9am take off. 

Because the balloons were already blown up, they controlled how high they went by throwing out sandbags, and when they were ready to land they had to pop balloons!  Click the picture above to see a short video of ballon cluster.

Mama was a little worried about the balloon landing safely, and was so thankful to hear they landed safely (the next morning) south of Show Low, Arizona. They sure went a long way, Show Low is over 200 miles southwest of Albuquerque!

Here is a short video of the balloons in flight:

You can read more about this cool adventure

HERE

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop