Autumn Yard & Garden

The colors of Autumn are beginning their displays.

The remaining sunflowers with the virginia creeper in the background.

I have been hauling manure to ammend the garden soil.

As you can see, I have also been pulling weeds and renegade raspberry plants

and tilling and making beds ready for the planting of the garlic.

Thankfully I only have to off load the manure!

It gets piled into the truck by this handy farmer.

See? We could use some rain to settle the dust around here.

Colors are changing around the little pond.

And my bowling  gazing ball shines in the light of the echinacea.

The grapes are slowly changing color as they ripen.

And all is right with the world.

Troy Color

View from the bank parking lot uptown Troy.

THis is "Wanda's Cut and Curl" yard.

The infamous, Wanda's! 

Autumn Colors

Mossy tree trunk

 Devils Club

Oplopanax horridus

Wouldn't that be a great name for a Bar?

One of my favorite wild plants, it is SO gorgeous in all seasons.

You definitely do NOT want to touch it!

 Wild Ginger

Asarusm Caudatum

The ferns, they are a changin'

Efficient Heating

 Heating with wood.

Warms a person many times in the process.

Turning this pile into the tidy stack below,

may generate the most heat of all!

I'd publish it as a work-out video,

but I am afraid the aching shoulders and calloused hands

may not be a huge selling point in todays society!

You can see by the "hack" marks that I need to work on my

maul marksmanship!

You are looking at my next several nights activities!

The Golden Larches

 It's that time of year

All the light is golden

an aura has settled upon us

night and day, the air is just a different hue

the color of calm

"The Colors"

 When folks heard about our trip to the east, nearly everyone had some comment about

"the colors" and how lovely it is back there this time of year.....

You know.

Well, it was pretty, not spectacular by any means.

They did have a droughty summer and it didn't appear that "the colors" were going to shape up and be outstanding this year.

But look at what we came home to!

 The Colors!

The scarlet oak, the virginia creeper, the mountain maple, and since we haven't had a killing frost

even yet (miraculous!) there are still squash blossoms and sunflowers!

I picked bouquets for the house this weekend!