When Becky and I were trying to come up with October ideas I told her leaf bouquets would be fun except many of our members don't live in an area where they get have hardwoods and get color.

Becky asked me to do a tutorial on leaf bouquets laughing because my bouquets are throw it in a vase

So I took a short walk around this morning and did some photo's as we have rain moving in. It's still a tad early for peak color here in the southern mountains but this is what I took today.

Dogwoods turning colors









Sugar maples we brought from Ohio













Burning Bush starting to color



Baby crape myrtle starting to color



Some of our front woods and along the driveway







Some roses still blooming









Throwing them in a vase






Squirrel leaving mess on one of my sitting rocks



Verbena



Clara Curtis



Camellia - Sansaqua - autumn bloomer and tries to hide it's blooms. I guess it's shy




So what do YOUR autumn gardens look like? I'll take more photo's throughout the month wanted to get some close to the house before the rains come.

Those are gorgeous vic! I don't think we'll have fall colors this year. I'll just look at yours and enjoy!

Very pretty, Vic....

I might find something in the way of fall colors to take photos of & post around December.
Meanwhile I'll enjoy everyone elses.

Nice colors starting up there Vic. Tree rats! Messin' up your sitting rock

Vic, thanks for sharing your fall walk with us! I still want to see a leaf bouquet and I know you'll throw one together for us when the leaves pop more. The Sugar maples are so pretty as it the red leaves. I love fall but we don't see much here unless we take a drive to the higher elevations.

The roses look so pretty in the bowl! I bet they smell wonderful!

Beautiful pictures!

This is about as much color as we have just yet except for the ubiquitous yellow scattered around.

Anyone remember pressing leaves between the pages of books as a kid? How about ironing them between two pieces of waxed paper to seal and preserve them and then cutting out around the shapes? Ah, childhood ... I think I just might collect some leaves and do that in a few weeks. Just thinking about it makes me feel like a kid again.



Cornus florida (White Flowering dogwood)

Tee, did your grandmother have one of those huge old Bibles, heavy as can be? Well I have the one that belonged to Ninna, and not long ago I was thinking of trying to repair its binding so I had it out glancing through it. In its pages I found pressed leaves between tissues and even found 4 leafed clovers. They were those that I'd gathered with her or for her. Also found a lock of my hair. I put everything back the way I'd found it. Somehow I couldn't bring myself to undo history. It might just have to remain as it is.

And yes about the waxed paper.

Our leaves, a few of them are turning. Not many though. A little gold here and there, a touch of red occasionally. Yours sure are pretty Vic.

I believe she had a big family Bible but I don't know what happened to it. We do have a gigantic old Dictionary though. Perfect for pressing leaves. How great that you found those things in Ninna's Bible ... and equally great that you put them back exactly as they were. What a treasure!

Same here on the dictionary - this thing was HUGE and I had forgotten about pressing leaves.

Your dogwood is beautiful Tee.

I don't blame you Sharon, some things are meant to stay where they are

The dictionary.

Tee - I think we had the same one! Really!

Mom even used it as a booster seat when we would come home when our babies were old enough to sit at the table

I remember sitting on the dictionary or standing on it to reach something. Dictionaries are good for a lot of things, aren't they? Notice how thick it is ... they don't make them like that anymore. Tons of word information in there. Even a tribute page to Noah Webster. Imagine that.

That's when dictionaries were more like encyclopedias. They had whole pages written about some one or some thing. History.

I see.

I anyone ever finds a Noah Webster Dictionary, they are valuable!!!!
Just my 2 cents.

Here's my one and only Fall pic so far.

Oh, that is BEAUTIFUL Nap!