I am knee deep in Christmas prep and Thanksgiving prep this week, rather in that order because of the long shipping times to and from here.  Because I can never do one thing at a time, I am trying to master digital design in my spare time, some of which is coming easily and some which is very… not.  Hence I am sharing digital layouts this week.

A funny – after returning home from the grocery store with the jellied cranberry, the brown and serve rolls, and the boxed stuffing mix – as per directions – I pointed out to husband that women's magazines are brimming with Thanksgiving recipes and menu ideas.  This was met with sincere consternation and a very earnest, "Why?"

You don't fool with traditional holiday food around here.  They want their cranberries to slip jiggling onto the plate and to fan out with the can indentations visible on the sides of those circles of gelled tang. They want marshmallows or pecans and brown sugar on the sweet potatoes thankyouverymuch. Don't even think about lemon meringue or Tollhouse cookie pie.  It will be apple, pumpkin, and pecan.  With Breyer's ice cream.  The only permissable vegetable for the day (aside from the potatoes) is obviously green beans. Obviously <g>

So if you were looking to me for holiday inspiration, I am sure to disappoint. : )  But it won't disappoint the people under this roof who are thoroughly unimpressed with experimentation.  Perhaps it is all our moving, all the regular change of scenery in our lives.  Whatever it is, they hold fast to their seasonal celebrations and they must look as much as possible like they did way back once upon a time in 1970's era Wisconsin. 

Alright, off and running on that note. More from our weekend wandering:

you can see below that in the middle of the woods, and off the trail proper, we stumbled upon a crucifix in the crook of an old tree.  Just like that.