Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Summer's Heat Returns

Angelonia

Straw flowers - perfect for bouquet or dried arrangements.

White gomphrena

Our tri-colored chrysanthemums beginning to bloom.  Autumn must be right around the corner.

Golden raspberries - sweet.

Pump-ke-mon decorative pumpkins. I love their stripes!

Wild flowers along the hoophouse.

Gourds growing

I can smell the honey!  Time to harvest - yet the thought of dressing up in a bee suit with heat indices over 100 degrees - well, it is just not going to happen.  The honey and bees will have to wait.

Tom turkey strutting his stuff.

Afternoon pecking 
Golden rod.

Kitties in a box.

Even more tri-colored mums.
Today's Journey Joys: A nice southerly breeze in the heat, hydrangea, peony, and hosta transplanting, weeping willow starts in a jar, learning to make bread and butter pickles with our abundance of cucumbers, lettuce starts hanging-in-there in late summer's heat, caramel cinnamon pancakes with new friends.

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