October BOO!

OOOOOOO... Scary cobwebs!

Stinkhorn mushrooms (uncommon)

Yellow asparagus ... next yellow will be the Forsythia in the spring!

Fall Re-View

Cleaning up the garden. Cleaning up the image archive. These are images captured earlier in 2012. Could not let them go by... without a view.

The turkeys are coming!

Frost Kills

 One hard frost. On schedule. Suddenly there are spectres of flowers past. Some trees just give up the ghost, and their leaves are down in the count of a day. We saved the peppers, but the plants are gone. Some birds were unimpressed. They still take icy baths.

Sun flower beast

Sad coneflower

Impaled leaf

Skeleton suns

Canna that can't

Cosmos after the big bang

Mourning dove

Downed leaves

Holes where the peppers used to be

Too many saved peppers 

Hello

October Post

We are in that colored space between summer and winter. I always enjoy those first bold flags of red and orange that vibrate against the greens. Some times there is an underlying melancholy for me as winter approaches, as I let go of the fresh veggies. But the bursting colors just blow it all away. The veggies are fading, but many flowers still shine, with no concerns of coming frosts. 

Newly repaired garden arbor with a gourd-cherry on top.