Webster, My Wonder Dog

Webster drinks from a silver bowl. Nothing's too good for that dog of mine!

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Sweet Potato Buttermilk Pie Recipe

I'm on a mission to clean up all of my bookmarks. If I blog about them then I'll be able to erase them. I've been saving this recipe from Smitten Kitchen for quite a long time. I want to make it for Thanksgiving or even sooner now that the weather is getting cool. Looks delicious, doesn't it? I always have sweet potatoes in the house and I usually have buttermilk too southern girl that I am.



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Thankful Children | Jessie Wilcox Smith

I adore the charming illustrations of children by Jessie Wilcox Smith. I felt like this little boy this morning as I was waiting for my cinnamon raisin toast to pop up out of the toaster; thankful but eager. I love the red geraniums on the windowsill too. [via]



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Apples Are My Favorite Things About Fall

I just can't get my fill of these ginger gold apples. They are tart and crisp and they snap when you bite into them. I eat several every day and buy them in great quantities when they are fresh off the trees. What's your favorite variety? Don't you love the way they look in my antique Georgian glass bowl?



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Daisies Are The Sweetest Flowers

I took this daisy photo last summer. I can't remember seeing any great daisies on my property this summer. Maybe they though it was too hot . . . and it was. At least I have this to remember them by.



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Use Your Head

You know how much I love Phrenology Heads. I've been saving this image because it fits in with the theme. Sorry, don't know the source of the poster.

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World's Most Expensive Book | Audubon's Birds of America | Sotheby's London

A rare copy of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" is heading to the auction block and is expected to fetch between $6.2 million and $9.2million.

Billed as the world's most expensive book, it is one of only 119 copies in existence.

The 2-by-3-foot tome consists of 435 hand-colored prints of Audubon's famous illustrations. It comes from the collection of a British baron who died in 1955. Sotheby's London



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How To Be Happy

Sounds pretty easy and fun, doesn't it? Original artwork by Susan Branch



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