Miss Sunshine and the windy days

Life sometimes gives us both rain and sunshine at the same time and even adds some heavy winds. This last week has been like that in our home. Last Wednesday this beautiful little puppy moved in with us. We call him Krummi, which is a nickname for a raven.  Krummi is such a wonderful little puppy. :-)

Our Icelandic sheepdog, our lovely dear Dúfa (means dove) took him so well right away. But on Friday Dúfa became seriously ill. During a few hours we really thought she wasn´t going to make it. But with wonderful vets who knew exactly what they were doing and with a lot of prayers from a whole lot of people, she turned back to life. She is now recovering. We don´t really know what happend but it looks like she may have eaten a poisenous mushroom. At least she was in a terrible shape. She is now starting to eat again and is in recovery. It will take some time but we believe she will be all good again :-)

Krummi is a smart lively little thing and we all love him to pieces. He learns fast but has a hard time understanding why Dúfa can´t play all day.

But Krummi also has a great friend in Embla Sól, my granddaughter. They know how to have fun together and teach each other a whole lot. Dúfa likes to take part but only for a short while at a time, until she is better.

Just before Dúfa got so ill, I received a wonderful packet of presents from Judy Grant. :-)

A whole lot of treasures came out of the envelope :-)

And here is Miss Sunshine with silk ribbon stitches, glittering beads and a beautiful smile.

This present couldn´t have come at a better time. I took the cross stitch pattern for the little Christmas box and started stitching while I was waiting for news about my poor little doggy. It soothed me to stitch and helped me concentrate on praying and not worrying.

Thank you so much Judy, I don´t think you realized how much this pressy would mean to me :-)

The sun is shining today on the wonderful autumn colours, the birds are singing and Life is good. Little Miss Sunshine will remind me of sunny days through our coming dark and cold winter :-)

The colours of autumn

I just love how summer and autumn are peacefully trying to top each others colours.

Scarlet Hit, is the name of this rather small rose but oh so beautiful.

The bees are still working while the Lisa Rose continues blooming. And she is not nearly done!

This one (Purpura broddur, in Icelandic) has "autumn colour" all summer, which makes a wonderful contrast with the green leaves around.

Skáldarós (Poets rose) shows beautiful variety of reds and pinks and yellows along with the green.

Birkikvistur looks like a beautiful flaming bush in my small garden.

This little Fairy Rose is blooming happily more and more, every day.
All these colours and texture are so inspiring for painting and stitching. So, I take as many photos as I can during this colourful time of year and look through them during winter :-)