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Happy Fall, everyone! Our leaves are turning fast, we will be at peak in less than two weeks. We have been digging the potatoes (6 varieties down, 4 to go) and starting our cleanup, putting everything away for winter. Geese are flying and not much left blooming in the gardens.

Red for Linda...

Dianne for those 😍 beautiful reds this morning.

1925, unknown

Charley

Love that, Charley! When I was a kid, the end of summer always made me sad.

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
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– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Charley

DeweyRooter said: Love that, Charley! When I was a kid, the end of summer always made me sad.

I have always loved Fall best! However our Fall foliage is not very colorful, or even pretty, thus far. Lots of leaves are just turning brown and dropping. Some muddy yellows though I have noticed a few trees and shrubs trying to be brighter. We have not had a truly spectacular Fall for several years in a row so I am very glad we moved here enough years ago to enjoy the Fall colors we once had.

September used to have a crispness in the air that made one want to take a deep breath. Not so this September - very warm and muggy. Hoping October will be different.

Charley, looks like that lovely picture is signed Art Young ( whoever that was).

I played a Cristian Goth wedding today. I think it was a Boston Church of Christ wedding but everyone wore black, even the bride. I've never seen that before.

That is kind of creepy sounding, Zoia.

Sunrise this morning, keeping up with the 'red' theme.

Wow!

Gorgeous Dianne!

Charley

Thank you, Charley for the

Yesterday there was Car Show in the park across rhe street. For the 3rd time this summer already!! All other years once a year at the end of June only.

Good part was there were three Food Trucks so I went and got Gyros from the Gyro Food Truck.

Wow, Dianne. That is impressive !!!

Took a couple photos of the front bed today. This will be bare ground in a few more weeks when everything gets cut down. In the spring, it will be all white daffodils. Then in late spring/early summer, the peonies take over. Those are followed by several different species of true lilies, and I have wave petunias in the pot holders. I switched out the petunias for mums this weekend, and the asters are blooming. I don't know the variety, but the pink aster was the only one I planted. It came with the house, and I moved it here. The purple asters are volunteers.

I'm trying to decide if I like it or not. The bees sure do. However, the asters have very substantial roots, so if I'm going to take them out, I'd better not wait until I get too much older to do it! Please feel free to criticize if you don't like it!

The pink asters are pretty.
I have wild weedy purple ones. I'd yank them all, except I noticed that the goldfinches feed on the seedheads during migration.

I think they look wonderful hawkeye. Love all the color.

Love the height added by the pot holders Hawkeye and the bright mums.

Well, I've been MIA, never caught up in the August Porchswing so turning over a new leaf for Fall. Well, trying. Like everyone, so much to get done before the weather turns.

Behind in garden while doing long overdue home improvement projects. Recently sort of finished front walkway.
Before pic, (oh the horror)

That walkway came with the house.

Almost after. Pic taken just after I finished the stone last week, which turned out to be more of a tetris puzzle.

I widened the walkway some, so the gardens lining the walkway are dug up in pic, and garden edging needs to be fixed/completed. Plus of course the clean up.

DH will be doing a cement step/curb at the end of the stone so I can catch up on other things. I'm not so patiently waiting for that to be done. There are no sidewalks here and I didn't want the stone walkway to get run over like the bottom of the last one thus the reason for the curb/step. The stone is tumbled blue stone. Figured it would take a few days, way off on that timing. Took just about two weeks for me to finish.

The walkway looks wonderful, K. Good to see you back. 😀