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A small thing, working on carrying on with circles, but really focused on finishing work for the gallery. A mere bagatelle – but cheerful and swirly.

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I got some awesome news yesterday! All four of the seasons pieces in Grow Gallery in Shelburne Falls sold. All to the same couple! I am stuck in exclamation points!!

I am also working hard on finishing more work for the gallery, because she needs more things. So I have three chickens in various stages of finished, and one small landscape and plans for two more.

I'm still working on the circles, I just had a momentary panic there –

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We are having some hair raising weather at the moment. The wind is howling around the house and making the trees sound like the ocean. It feels like this should be a hurricane or the remnants of one, but I think it is just a very strong cold front rolling through, pushing a lot of warm wet air in front of it.

I saw the onions today in the Big Y, which is a supermarket, and different from the Y which is the YMCA. I like the purple ones best, although I don't think I can taste the difference.

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Continuing on with squash, have a butternut squash. I was looking at the long line of them at the farmer's market the other day, thinking it was too hot yet to turn on the oven to bake them, and then last night… brrr! I do love this time of year.

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Three circles today for your delectation.

Friday I tried corn on the cob again and I think I like it the best so far. I hadn't realized I'd done it once before early in the month, but Sept 14 is my favorite of the bunch.

The radishes are for September 15. I am especially pleased with their little raggedy leaves. all my experiences with radishes have to do with growing them, and being willing to eat them because I managed to grow something. I don't care for them much, unless they are produce I've produced.

Today's circle, in honor of the near frost last night, is pumpkins. I adore pumpkins. I like the shape, and color, and the curve of them and the fact that they can get so big, and that they make tasty pies.There are no bad things about pumpkins.

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I am less pleased with this one – lumpy and yellow and meant to be corn. I may address these again.

A turnip, the purple topped kind, that makes me think of a long story:

When I was finishing college, my father bought one last boat. Its name was Triumph. The boat had… issues. The worst was that it was impossible to turn while under sail. It was a sail boat. This was bad. In frustration, we called it the Turnip, instead of Triumph, and I designed a mast-head flag for it that showed a purple-top turnip with baroque foliage on a blue background. I still have the drawing around in a sketchbook, although we managed to sell the boat before I made the flag.

So I was kind of channeling the idea of a heraldic turnip when I got to the leaves.

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I think I was trying too hard yesterday – I exercised my dad at the Y, and then went over to Pelham and rode two horses! Not just Kaboose, the fierce red mare, but also little funny rubbery Ruby who was gone for summer camp but is home now. All I could do at the end of the day was sit still and go to be d early.

Today I was much calmer. I did cut out the base layer for Janny's pieces, but they are just big white rectangles, so nothing of interest yet. Alice and I stopped at the Tuesday Farmer's Market in town for the Pie contest. It was delicious! And I hugged the mayor (our kids were friends before, it isn't something I'll do to just any mayor), and then after the pie, Alice and I had pizza for supper and came along home.

The market was full of inspiration for circles for this month; apples, radishes, huge jars of honey and multicolored ears of corn. Six different colors of potato, next to three different colors of peppers and carrots in the usual orange as well as yellow, green and deep red. It is intoxicating to look.

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The weird looking tomatoes come in and Al says "oh good – it is the ugly tomatoes!"

They are also the tasty tomatoes, and the interesting looking ones, and the madly varied color ones, so really I am not complaining. The nicest one tonight was the streaky green one.

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That would be four pears all together.

I went over to King Oak to watch a friend of mine from the internet compete in the horse trials there. She is competing well above the level I got to, back in the previous century when I was doing such things. I managed to record her dressage test and stadium jumping round, but the heavens opened just before her cross country ride and she retired when he felt slow and off. It was her birthday too – a discouraging way to have a birthday.