♥ Happy Harvest Home...!!!

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(Lovely 'Old Rose'...)

Happy Harvest Home to you!!!  Happy Autumnal Equinox!  Happy Mabon!  Happy however you refer to this time of the year!  :-)

"The Ghost-Eye Tree"  by  Bill Martin, Jr.  A dear blogger Linda, has posted about this book.  On Halloween, her husband reads this story book aloud, to local children.  This year, he'll be reading it to the new Quads.  :-)  Anyway, it sounded cute and I got it out of the library.  It is great!

For any child or adult, who enjoys a gently scary story, this is perfect.  The story is sweet.  The drawings illustrate the story perfectly.  You would probably enjoy it, if you look for it, in your own library system.  :-)))

Our Pink Spirea bush is trying to bloom again.  Here and there.  :-)))

 Have you read any of the  "Being a Jane Austen Mysteries"?  This is the first one, I have read.  "Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron," by Stephanie Barron.  Now I admit, anything with the name of Lord Byron on it, catches my fancy.  He was certainly an intriguing person!!!

This series is fiction, of course.  Although the author weaves things from Jane Austen's real life, into her plots.  Places she (J.A.) is known to have visited, and happenings in the real life of her family.  I've never read a whole book by Jane A.  So I am hardly a "true fan."  

And "True Fans of Jane A." might sniffff, at my even trying to write this.   -giggle-   And "True Fans of Jane A." would probably sniffffffff at such original stories being spun, around her real self, period.  Perhaps...  I don't know.  I don't belong to any "True Fans of Jane Austen A." sites.  ,-)  (So I am safe...  -grin-)

This book, though kind of long (but I did take out the Large Print version), is not as long and ponderous an undertaking, as Jane's real books.  It is gossipy, and fun along those lines, though.  ,-))))  Lots of characters (of course!), and I get a bit *discombobulated*, by so many of them!  ,-)  But it was fun!

Another of my pictures, of cute little old fashioned illustrations, in 'Mary Jane's Farm' magazine.  I had to cut off some of the drawing, in order to not show the words on the page.  At the top of the picture, there are 2 children, holding poles.  In the full view, there are pumpkins on top of those poles.

Don't sweet old fashioned illustrations like that, make you have nostalgic thoughts, of old fashioned childhood?  -sigh-   ♥   I know!  Like all forms of looking-back...  They show only the "pretty-parts," and not the "not-so-pretty-parts" of life, long ago.   But...  -sigh-  It's nice to dream of simpler times.  :-)

Thinking nostalgic thoughts, makes me remember to get "Mrs. Sharp's Traditions" (by Sarah Ban Breathnach)  out of the library system!  

Now this is a delightfully nostalgic book!  And it shows "traditions," for every season of the year.  Have you, Dear Reader, ever picked this book up?  Did you enjoy it, as much as I do?  ♥

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