Another man by the same name...

 August F. Heym, Feb 18, 1832 - Aug 8, 1908

his wife, Julia D. Heym, Aug 20, 1830-Apr 4, 1894.

These graves are in Sandusky Ohio.  They are related to a man who died some 40 year ago, who had the same name as my son, Russell Heym.

So he's been bit by the Ancestry bug...and spent hours trying to see if he's at all really related to his doppelganger, only that's not the right term...they don't necessarily look alike, but have the same, relatively unusual names.

I gave him all kinds of information, and away he's gone!

The first Russell lived from 1919-1989, and his mother died when he was about 2, and he was raised by his grandparents. But who the connection might be between these 2 families is completely missing. They all originally came from Germany.

So we've had fun tracing people that probably aren't related to us today.  A whole day of sitting on laptops at the kitchen table. And eating left overs.  My daughter-in-law and the 3 grands went shopping. I gladly passed. No thanks for me.

Oh, who are August and Julia Heym? They would be great grandparents of Russell (1919-1989).

Family photo album - Ohio

Thanksgiving - the second one I've shared with my son and his family in Ohio. We are aware that each of us likes to save photos, and Michelle and I shared some we took.

 We were very grateful for the bounty which we ate with joy!

Audrey, Kate and Caroline finally posed for us!

Happy Thanksgiving

 A dragon of clouds coming over the ridge into the valley...but no rain this time. This is the office building aka club house at my apartments. It used to be the home of the original owners of the property who started Blue Ridge Apartments for seniors.

 Two different kinds of oak foliage by Lake Tomahawk.

 Just one tree with red somethings, on the duck island.

 I couldn't tell if they were leaves or berries, but liked the reflection in the water.

Three different kinds of ducks, and just one Canada Goose (below.)

My gorgeous granddaughters who I am visiting today...but I didn't take this pic.

The last post of fall colors

And here's another batch of enjoying my local colors! (Which have all gone away by now...but I still like seeing the photos!)

On Saturday Nov 2, there was a lot of frost on this picnic bench and table outside our laundry room. Frost was also on cars, but quickly melted as the sun hit them.

 On Tuesday I started to walk around Lake tomahawk (Nov 5)

 There are many bare branches...

But look who was walking towards me...my old neighbor and dear friend Sarah Vekasi (another potter too!) and her new dog Griffin.  We talked about problems with lunging and barking (Griffin) and how my son Tai has worked with a special collar on my grand-dog Zora.  So bim bam, and a few texts later and she (Sarah) got the info from Tai about the collar to maybe help train Griffin.

By Nov. 7, I have more mountains to see, and the maples have thinned down considerably outside my living room windows. I'm on my balcony, where I was piling up all the pots which have plants still alive, but which I don't plan to winter-over inside.  So I took this from outside, rather than through the tinted glass windows.

Fall foliage North Carolina!

you already saw some of my Rockies photos HERE.
And up on Mt. Pisgah Here, on the Blue Ridge of the Appalachians.

So today is more around my neighborhood of Black Mountain NC!

 Tailgate Market Oct 12, lots of brown leaves still on the trees, and huge leaves under the pottery booth.

 My lavender plant was blooming again!

 Some good color on just a few trees...

 A grey day at Lake Tomahawk's center for active aging.

 The rain had passed, and there was a bit of color as I went to Lakeview Center for lunch... Oct 22.

 The Red Maple in my apartment complex!

This view is from the upper parking lot looking down the slope to the lower parking lot, behind the Clay Studio of BMCA (Black Mountain Center for the Arts.)

 This van just parked here and blocked the drive from one parking lot to the next...I called the non-emergency police...and they were dispatching someone right away!

These were taken in mid November...and now most of these trees are bare or close to it!

More of NC colorful fall

I continue to walk around Lake Tomahawk whenever the weather is agreeable.

The Japanese Maple was subdued this year...where in previous years it's been the focal point for fall photos.

I wonder if the subdued colors of our fall will forecast anything in particular for the winter...

Finally the Appalachian Mountains of home

 Suzanne finally was tired enough to let me drive through the turns around Knoxville, where I once lived. She took over again for the last leg through the mountains to Asheville.

 I've always loved seeing the Smokies as you go east.

 The first highway sign saying Asheville is just 59 miles ahead. Heck, we've got several thousand miles under our belts (seat belts) by now...this is a breeze.

 Welcome to Haywood County (NC!)

And coming home, we only took a few minutes unloading my stuff into my car, which had been parked at Suzanne's for the whole time.  It turns out that wasn't a great idea, because some rodent moved in and tried to set up housekeeping in my heater, and left a big pile of cotton and a terrible smell.  Fortunately the animal didn't end up being found when the mechanic pulled out all the nesting materials, and the air blows freely and without scent through the system now.

I've been home the rest of the month of October, and slipped right back into my old habits pretty easily. But I've also had all these photos to post here.  No more. They are all out in the web now. And I'm going to be posting more local photos over on Alchemy of Clay (just because there were so many of these from the trip!)