Weekend Chatter

 Hi everyone. It's Sunday again.  I hope you are having a nice weekend. It's been a bit chilly and windy so far this weekend in my area, and it sounds like typical November weather has arrived, compared to the middle of last week when we had some more beautiful mild weather.

     Today I have a journal spread to share for Wendy's On, In or By the Sea challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking up to Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

     By now you probably know my husband and I went to Quebec back at the end of September, and many of you might also already know that I like to make trip journals. Since we spent so much of our time away near the ocean, I'll have some pages to share this month  that work for Wendy's AJJ challenge. Here's my first one, a 2 page spread about our visit to Mighasha National Park.  This link takes you back to my original post about our visit about this premier fossil site on the ocean.

     I made the background yellow and grey to match both the cliff's color and also the grey many fossil rocks are. I used a couple of sets of Paper Artsy rubber stamps and stamped fish on both the actual background and on some printed paper. The fish on the printed paper were fussy cut. I also stamped the background with some label rubber stamps and a few design images. The green circle is the actual sticker  I needed to wear in the park, and I used some stickers to make the title for the page. Finally I cut out one black and white fish image from a travel info brochure and added that. It's a modern fish but since fish are still an important part of the Gaspe area, I thought it fit. 

    And how about a few photos to wrap up this post?

    I went for a 5 mile hike with some friends the other day.  I took photos of the trail signs as we walked because a few years ago when we did this hike we ended up on the wrong trail and had to backtrack a couple of miles. Luckily we didn't need the photos this time to find the right trail back to the car.

The end of the trail for us was on top of this cliff that had a nice view.

Even though I didn't get a great photo, we saw a pileated woodpecker. We also saw a couple of squirrels. But I think most likely we were talking too much and scared away anything else. 😏

     We had some gorgeous weather this past Wednesday, and my husband wasn't up to going to work, so he took the day off. He went up to close his mother's house on the lake for the winter, and the dogs and I tagged along. 

And I thought my yard was full of leaves. Here's my  mother-in-law's driveway.

I had my husband drop me off at the end of the road, and the dogs and I walked in to her house. It was a lovely day to do that.

I also had to go to Maine one day last week for an appointment. I stopped to grab some lunch at a local restaurant, and in their waiting area they had this fun cow bench.

Finally, my own yard clean up continues. Believe me, I don't get rid of all the leaves that fall (I'm not that obsessed), and it is probably even impossible to do that. 

   Of course with the strong winds earlier this weekend, all the loose leaves have shifted. I watched them blow around the other day and even got hit in the face by a few when I went out to get the mail. 😏 I may not have any more lawn clean up until spring, which would be great.

Have a super rest of your weekend and start to the new week.