My comfort zone today……………

 It's time for a garden post because, after last night's

showers, we awoke early this morning to a refreshed view 

from the windows. We decided, after breakfast, to put 

in a few hours of work pruning, pulling out weeds, 

overgrown ivy and periwinkle, digging out a couple of dead 

plants, and cutting back the old climbing roses along the 

back fence - their trellis needs replacing - and they were

just not flowering well the past two seasons.

The Peace Rose has blooms again, it never fails

to amaze me.

 

 Before doing all that, once the sun was shining and things 

were drying off, I grabbed a camera and took some pics of 

freshly washed flowers and pumpkins.

I must tell you, I had nary a bloom on my hydrangeas this 

past Spring and Summer - due apparently to our unusually 

cold Winter for this southern area. Now here it is Autumn, 

and this bush is blooming quite profusely, beautiful blues, 

some already turning a pinkish-mauve soon to be cut for 

drying and decorating indoors.

 This is my yellow pumpkin, note it's not an 

orange one! It reminds me of a lovely sunset. 

I do love the Autumn garden - until the leaves 

start falling and all that raking and blowing 

becomes hard work. 

It's still warm, so until then I will enjoy taking tea 

on the front porch, watching the birds at the 

feeder - today there were cardinals, chickadees and 

bluebirds - surrounded by Nature's lovely colors.