Home improvement project - sun room

I planned on painting the sun room quite a while ago based on the date of the paint I bought for the project. It is a dreaded painting project because it is almost all window and door trim. I also had to repair a bit of water damage on the ceiling.

Also, the base-board radiators are a problem because one had to be removed which exposes the pipe and another section also has an exposed pipe without a cover leaving the plaster wall exposed. It probably isn't possible to repair the plaster behind the radiators. So my solution was to try to make them go away.

Corner before

Corner in progress

Corner complete

Theodore Wirth winter

One of the things I love about traveling is the contrasts. Just a few days ago I was on a sunny and warm beach. Today I'm back home it was cold and it snowed over night.

Cozumel vacation in photos (2) swimming with fish

We only snorkeled off the hotel but it is all we needed to see big and small fish, coral and amazing sponges.

One of my favorites - angel fish.

Jill swimming with the fish.

A pair of green moray eels.

A very large snail eating a starfish.

A man-made reef.

The 'wall'. So many different colored sponges.

Jill swimming with fish.

A tube sponge.

Cozumel vacation in photos (1)

Another great post-Thanksgiving vacation in Cozumel, Mexico. The weather was fantastic. My vacation mate, Jill, and I relaxed, ate, drank, snorkeled, walked (and Jill shopped).

My amazing friend, Jill, and I photo-bombed by an iguana.

Beautiful weather.

Sailing is a new option at Coral Princess. We didn't.

Super moon over the Caribbean.

Took some time but captured this photo of sparrow-sized yellow bird.

Cozumel Ironman. This guy is the leader and eventual pro male winner.

Drama

So much fun with crosswords.

I did get stung by two fire ants. Just two but very painful and lasted all week!

Annual ginko tree leaf drop

It happens every year. Pretty much every ginko leaf falls of the trees on my street in well fell swoop. And this year it happened the day AFTER the street was swept by the city.

Street view six days ago.

A Sure Sign of Winter Coming

When I finally bring the geraniums in means there is no turning back. I won't leave them with their flowers but they just looked so nice.

I've been successfully over wintering these particular geraniums for several years now. I rescued the two pink ones from my neighbor Irma's front steps after she died. She is the one who told me about keeping them over the winter. The people who bought her house have still to this day never removed the dead marigolds that the realtor planted. It has been 10 years maybe!

Fall Photos

Sunroom view.

My art photo.

Multiple colors in one tree.

Pumpkins, gourds and mums.