Hello, Fall

 Fall has arrived!

This time of year our ladies get a special treat!

They're all gathered up and waiting

They sure love watermelons and pumpkins

I'm happy for Fall's arrival but our temperatures all last week were up to 91, still HOT. Very THANKFUL the recent hurricane missed us. 

A look back at summer:

"tater" time!

Happy for fresh green beans and taters time

Country Living magazine

saw this page in a recent Country Living magazine.........went to take a picture of my own cow creamers, they are on a shelf in the kitchen

Love that magazine.....do you ever read it?

It was time for the first beans and taters, I cooked them in the crock pot all day.

This is probably one of our last four 'o clocks blooming:

But we still have lots of wildflowers! Including these wild morning glories

Hope your October has started safely and happily!

so glad you stopped in to see me.

summer reads

 I stocked up on books for summer reads

I still haven't gotten to this one yet

I  read this one, set in Old Florida. It was a great book, I loved it

I  finished this one too, was a great story, I loved it and hated it to end!

Lots and lots of interesting history!

Pretty good story, easy read:

I really enjoyed this book and will read more  books by this  author:

I love books set in this time period

I have "Lilac Girls", but haven't read it yet. Have you?

Books shown in magazines, sometimes I find some good ones this way:

Womans World magazine

Mary Alice Monroe, one of my favorite authors, has a new book out. (above) I haven't got it yet.

Womans World magazine

Womans World magazine

Enjoyed this one!

I loved this book!

Did you read any books this summer?  I like to read at night, when all the chores are done and everything is quiet.

I still enjoy magazines ALOT, but so many are closing the doors and ceasing publishing, many I've read for decades. I hate to see some of them go. 

Now I have a stack of Fall Reads, which I've begun and finished one so far.

I hope you had a great week and are enjoying some nice mild Fall weather. I think Fall "officially " arrives in just days.

Late summer walk about

It's a beautiful day and the birds are calling us out......to take a walk!

It's been slightly cooler, down in the 80s, which is a nice break from sweltering summer.

This little guy was singing loudly

as was this brilliant cardinal

I paint old bottles and make stick ornaments for the gardens, like the popular bottle trees, only not trees. Bottles on sticks....LOL

great way to finish up half way empties of spray paint

"Sometimes, in summer, the world (our backyard) looks so glorious you expect animatronic Disney butterflies to appear..."

                                   .....Jill Herzig

I love that quote above because every bloom and all the butterflies are so amazing to me.

a tangle of four o' clocks and a blue "gazing ball"

our cannas are almost neck high now, and bloomed pretty well this sumer.

good "maters" hanging on  the vines make me happy

Spied my first splashes of Goldenrod in the country ditches. At least I think this is Goldenrod?

These are wildflowers in our fields. They started last Fall. This year we have DOZENS more! I think the leaves are such a pretty shape

And they have pretty little yellow blooms on them

I hope everybody's September has started out great!