One year--2014--we had a pileated regularly visit our bird feeder. You cannot believe the thrill! Yours might be after more than seeds in your tree--could be a tasty ant colony tucking in for the winter that's drawing your pileated's attention. Regardless, wonderful sighting photos and what a...

Totally adorable. Love the washes of color...beautiful work!

Awesome how you changed winter to Autumn with a little recoloring magic! Can you do that for us in NY please? Seriously, those trees are stupendous...also, the evergreen across the centerline dials down the vibrancy just enough, and I like the scale of it.

This puts me in such a cozy mood! Beautiful!

I think your prediction is 3 inches/hour with a total accumulation of 4 ft. Where's that "scream" emoticon? Stay warm!

We have a pellet stove at the new/old (1876) farmhouse we bought a little over a year ago...it's a solar house, so the pellet stove is supplementary, an alternative to a wood stove (which would require chopping and hauling and stacking cord wood instead of a ring-ring for delivery to The Pellet...

Beautiful! Love your use of the green.

I love how you positioned everything, including that "Talk Time" cluster. It's big and bold and abolutely wonderful! The toy horse at the bottom is really cool, too.

Super balance here, with the journaling blocks, eyes, and tree trunk anchoring the pictures, and the fleeting quality of time. The embellishment is exactly Goldilocks-perfect, neither too much nor too little. Bravo!

Geez, what we bring with us from childhood! I like how you captured it...talk about bittersweet. This is beautiful work!

I am captured by the poem and it inspires a range of emotions. Along with the imagery, you've drawn a poignant picture of one of life's most challenging passages.

Extractions, yikes! Shiver me timbers! You did a GREAT job! This is such a warm and cozy spread...and those hats are superb. :) Love the pumpkins!

Excellent use of the Artplay Palette. The colors are wonderful here!

The first snow is always so special and I love to document it...even when the photos are dark and the main one features the local Pellet Guy. That's when you really need a delicious Artplay Palette to save the day! I was happy to have the template to jumpstart my design, and just added a...

Go for the pumpkins!

Cats are truly inscrutable! I'm told that Pencil keeps a safe distance from the door these days. Doesn't sound like she was too impressed with what the outside world has to offer (she also came down with a fever and respiratory illness a couple of days after her adventure, entailing a vet visit...

We're in the same position with the dogs we'll be tending when our new grand is being born. NO WAY am I letting them run free, even though I've been told it's okay. Leashes all the way for me!

Oooooooh! NICE! Love the dark background--works so well here!

Easy place to leave your heart...and you definitely document why! Love your use of the framing over the photo effect. Congrats on that Standing O!

Such richness here. I love the poem and the party!