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Peas in a pod are sometimes not terribly alike.

Women with art due are sometimes very tired and fail to address their commitments.

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Which is of course a joke my mother will recognize – at any Chinese restaurant the only things my kids would eat was chicken with broccoli.

It did not look like this. Alice suggested a line of stitching to set of the chicken from her background, and I love the way it looks now.

The broccoli all standing on the trays at the supermarket made me think of a forest, and contemplate for a moment what it would be like to be that small.

I am still working on the next chicken, a gold laced Wyandotte.

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It took me a while to get to like potatoes, but I have always liked their names. My grandmother had a corgi she named Russet because she was a potato shaped little dog. I like Yukon Gold and Fingerlings and Peruvian Purples too.

I have one chicken almost done. I have to remember not to put chickens on red backgrounds. Their combs just fade into the background, and then I have to improvise….

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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.