November's Postcard of the Month
No. 1 No. 2  No. 3...

No.

These numbers don't 'mean' anything in particular.

I just have this cool, brown-ish tissue paper:

with all these number combinations - some of them vintage-looking.

I just liked that 'No.' is almost Nov. /November.  To me, it seemed more a sort of implied ellipsis:

No.1, No.2, No.3... 

And on we go. Quietly plodding on towards all the sleeping disintegrations of the waning season

ready to hold close in; still and quiet.  Well... in a Vermont hermit's world, anyway!  Or a bear's.  :-)

So...  The quick, unglued slap-downs went from this:

 (which I kind of liked as is...)

to this:

 to this:

 to this:

 to this:

 to this:

 to this:

 to this:

 Yes - quiet month, so only a sliver of music.

The Fixin's

The Steps: The Movie

The Steps

32 this month

 I was sorry to cover up so much of this warm brown in later steps...

I really like using little pieces of netting:

fencing? tree limb-lattice? power-line tower gridwork?!

Just wanted to pull in a little more red:

compensate a bit for covering up that nice piece of reddish brown...

And then I just had to add a few 'falling leaves':

Panels of 21 of November's postcards

Been meaning to do this for months - with every month's panels - finally remembered to do so!

Fin.

Addendum: Mushrooms, Milkweed and Frog

They're Back!  My favorite little Hypholoma sublateritium (aka: Brick Caps) colonies.  :-)

And these nice little Turkey Tails:

Found lots of little Gem-studded Puffballs again this season:

And we ate 'em.  :-)

(Not a lot of taste, and a not-so-savory texture - similar to tofu or scrambled eggs...)

And this was one of our own cultivated Shitakes:

Quite yummy; nice texture.

v Some kind of Amanita?

And a few more that I had identified, but neglected to write down/remember...

    

October's Postcard of the Month
Um... Is that a farting cat??!

This shot of this fierce-looking Bobcat: 

was taken at a friend's house just a couple of miles away.

Decided to use my little cat punch*:

And was thinking about maybe something with pumpkins:

Dropped the pumpkins; changed the moon; added some 🎶:

Changed the lower half:

Changed the moon again:

And again:

Some further tweaking:

And, in the final iteration,

I switched the orange crescent to the right side,

and dropped the bright orange dots.

The Fixin's

Production Steps: The Movie:

The Steps

A mere 31 this month.**

Panel of 21 of October's postcards:

Fin.

*I first used this cat punch for my 1997 Winter X postcard:

It was my most popular Winter card - and panel:

I also used it in this (much-larger-than-a-postcard) commissioned pet homage a few years ago:

Can you see the cats?!

**Well, really 33 steps - I pre-glued the gold foils to the back of the music/moon hole...