It's nearly Halloween...

This postcard appeared on the mantel one evening. Andrew had picked it up on a trip to Powell's. Spooky, right?

It alone was going to be my post for Halloween, then I moved it to the bathroom shelf and added a few things.

Halloween was a fun excuse to put together an autumn vase arrangement, or two.

Fertile fronds of Blechnum spicant (dried), the left behinds of Crocosmia blooms, Disporum longistylum ‘Night Heron’ stems, and the seed heads of Pachystegia insignis.

It's the Pachystegia insignis bits that inspired these arrangements.

This guy is an annual Halloween addition, one of our vintage paper decorations. I'm not one of those people who goes all out for the season. It's low key and largely nature based around here. 

But let's return to that postcard photo. What do you suppose brought these woman together? Some of them have a slight smile. Some look much more mysterious, spooky even. One or two look like they might be casting a spell on whoever it was taking the photo...

The Bit at the End

Are you familiar with the term, civil twilight? I'd never heard of it until a random Google search turned it up, while looking for something else. Civil twilight is defined astronomically as the period when the center of the sun is between 0° and 6° below the horizon (source), it's called that because the sky is still bright enough for people to conduct most “daytime” outdoor activities. Scientific American defines the three types of twilight here, and that's where I learned that civil twilight is followed by nautical twilight, and then astronomical twilight. BTW, Saturday night turn your clocks back an hour (unless you live in Arizona or parts of Canada). Will we ever stop this crazy time travel thing?

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