After an early snow:
It melted away within a few days, and golden leaves are still on the trees:
I guess it's still Falltime, even though it's easy to forget and accelerate the seasons in one's mind when the snow comes so early! It did get cold enough to light our ceremonial First Fire!
And the summer produce is gone. I am back to my daily apple, shared with you-know-who!
Getting ready for my morning run is quite a process nowadays. The snow melted and turned into slush, but at night it refreezes into ice! So I'm wearing studded Icebugs, which cannot be worn inside the house without damaging the floors. So I set my shoes on the welcome mat, harness up the girls, put on my coat and hat, etc, etc. Then when I'm allllll ready to go, I put on my shoes last! Look how patiently they wait!
Cricket cuddling with her favorite guy. DL is uneasy with this cuddle position. As soon as Cricket suspects I am doing something Interesting, she punches him in the balls and launches herself off his chest with those powerful back legs.
Last weekend, I accomplished my last pre-winter chore and expanded my Lazy Person's Garden. I sure don't feel like a Lazy Person during the establishment process! I have to break up the hard, Arctic soil and fill it with good stuff.
DL tells me to holler when I've filled the wheelbarrow with sod and weeds, and he rolls it to the bottom of the hill and dumps it there to compost.
Here is my newly expanded bed! Now that I've committed to doing a CSA every year, I'm just not gonna bother with veggies. Just herbs, perennial flowers, and easy annuals. This bed is all perennials and annuals that are accustomed to their seeds freezing, so I've already sprinkled them--there are columbines, veronicas, delphiniums, irises, and poppies. I also planted the lilies a friend had split from hers. I guess they reproduce from bulbs? Irises also propagate easily, and it would have been easy for me to dig one up from any wild patch, but these seeds were brought to me from the homestead of a very dear departed friend, and I want to have his irises on my home. The columbine seeds were mailed from Montana! This friend and I exchanged seeds last year!
Fall is still falling on Ester Dome.
A beautiful day!
But look! On top, it is winter! It was nice to walk around in fluffy snow with 100% confidence. My ankle didn't hurt at all, even the downhills! Now I wonder if part of my residual pain is tension and fear, and when I feel safe it doesn't hurt.
My patient companions!
When we got home, our yard looked strikingly pretty, too!
Happy Fall to all 14 of my loyal readers!
4 comments:
I love your pictures! Seeds from friends here and departed are such a wonderful way to still be close. I'm sure your garden will be lovely and full of memories. Still waiting for fall here in north Florida.......
Fantastic early fall photo compilation:) What a lovely tribute to a dear friend- you'll think of him every year those irises bloom! Have had freesia in my garden for 18 yrs- given to me by a neighbor when he was still alive- he's no longer with us but his memory lives on.
Hugs to the fuzzy girls:)
@gina and @e.davis: Thank you both. I will post photos of the shoots, and the blooms, in time!
We got a veggie box last year after the fire and after my veggies didn’t do much this year I decided to renew it this Fall. Given the drought, kind of makes more sense.
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