Change Over

Autumn finally came, and except for weak knees,  I am doing OK.

Fall is usually lovely, but it only lasts for about a week or two, especially this year.  The trees started to change about five days ago, and today big winds came and blew them off.  Easy come, swiftly gone.  However, because of the elongated summer, I was able to enjoy, for an extra month, all the work that Mother Nature did on my gardens. 

Back in May I put some two inch plants into the ground and/or pots.  They weighed a few ounces each. 





Park's Seeds

It rained a lot in Pennsylvania and so with very little help from me, they became these:

                                           

                                          My daughter, my model.

                           It rained so often, cushions seldom were put on the chairs. 

                                               There is a bench under there.

                     Night time on the woods edge (with some help from solar lighting)
 

My favorite cactus

 

 

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                                A view on my deck. (if there is room, there is a flower)

 

 

 

 

                                Hard to see, but this is inside my Zen Garden at night. 
 

Yes, I overdo, but I have cut back on the amount of annuals that I have planted in the past. These are a few of my garden areas; most of the remaining are full of perennials that bloom for shorter times in the summer and need less care.

 

 

Now, though, is the time to say good-bye to all these lovely flowers that surround me.  I started dismantling the gardens two weeks ago - very slowly.  What were once small and weightless, are now very large with roots that cling to other roots and refuse to let go.  I know how they feel.  I am down to the largest pots and am promising myself that I will not plant this many next year. 

 

 

I think I remember promising myself the same thing last year.  

 

 

I hope you all have a fun Halloween with lots of visits from gremlins begging for candy, unless, of course, you want it all for yourself.