I love having these plants, silky dogwood, and the wildlife they attract. Many different looks during the year.

Oh, WOW! Thank you so much Linda. I appreciate it and like that it's for my gg grandmother!

Despite not being a big fan of white space, I really wanted to do this challenge.

I have lots of photos of the tracks and lichens on a dead branch that fell off one of our trees the other day. I find them fascinating, and DH saved it for me knowing I would.

Creating a new look for my great greatgrandmother's photo was exciting but a challenge too. She deserved it! old version: https://oscraps.com/community/media/trip-to-the-past.193104/

scrap-genie's NOVEMBER 2022 CHALLENGE LAYOUT LINKS: Challenge 1: BIG PHOTO https://oscraps.com/community/media/a-last-display.370599/ Challenge 2: HERITAGE https://oscraps.com/community/media/mothers-pride-joy.370731/ Challenge 3: TEMPLATE https://oscraps.com/community/media/autumn-light.370669/...

Love what you put together, the colors and photos. Makes me wish I were there!

I seem to remember liking it but haven't had any in a long time.

Vicky, They are different, but Ancestry has a tremendous amout of data. MyHeritage has a more international focus and subscibers. The free FamilySearch dot org is huge and not to be overlooked. Subscription sites are not cheap. Public libraries often have access (in the library) to Ancestry...

Christmas is coming . . . We're in a little bubble of sunny, warm weather, but the poinsettia has been getting red leaves for about a week. For @felis here is one of them.

Though I grew up in an iris-growing family, I don't remember anything about iris that rebloom in the fall until pretty recently. This year a lovely white one and a pretty yellow iris both put on an autumn show in the little garden outside the senior center. So welcome in this oddly cool season.

Mine don't. My Mayflower line people left New England in the late 1600s to settle in New Jersey. That limited my New England connections.

I say tea, but most days it's really tisane, the "correct" name of herbal teas. Also juice. I don't get caffeine until later in the day with diet Coke.

I'm into Christmas planning already. I'm going to do a new H&S book for DH (did one in 2016), have picked two other items I want to get him. So just getting them without his knowing, picking one more, actually DOING the new book, and then gifts for BiL and the evil cat. That's about it for me.

Mary, so good to hear you're feeling better, even good enough to be scrapping!!!

Oh, Cheryl, thank you so much! It was a pleasure working with this LO so it's really sweet to have it enjoyed.

Birding on my birthday is great, in the midst of spring migration, but our yard also had things to photograph when I got home.

I just did the sketch challenge with a photo of my parents cutting the cake for their 50th anniversary in 1980.

I wonder if you'd consider using the colors of the flowers and the tie and let the red dress be the beautiful contrast. If you did that, the September Color Play might work, using whichever pieces appeal to you.

We had a fun party for my parents 50th anniversary back in 1980. I only have small print of the photos now really discolored but got a scan of this one restored at MyHeritage, a subscription genealogy website.