Not Yet Fall, But ALMOST!

Oh, Hello.... it's been a while.  

Gotta get my blogging mojo to go some mo.

 We have new flowers on the porch and deck.

My husband's idea, and he does most of the watering of them.

 Some of them seem rather dainty for fall flowers,

and we usually buy mums.

I may still buy a few since I REALLY enjoy them in the fall with their 'fallish' colors, whereas these seem more springlike to me.

 I've always wanted some type of ornamental cabbage or kale, and so far I am not disappointed in this one which sits in our small rickety chair on the front porch.

It fills the pot so fully and completely too.... no room for anything but the kale.

Bashful Betty curtsies to the pots of flowers all day and all night.

She knows that the green leaves and colorful blooms that Mother Nature gives us are

important to the earth, and to us, as they put more oxygen into the air.

And did I tell you that the butterfly bush is still attracting critters?

I had to look this one up on the internet... it's an Eastern Comma Butterfly that paid us a surprise visit a few days ago.

My favorite butterfly this year.

What's new for fall at your place?

I Have Loved Thee Most

 The rains dashed a petal, one lonely petal from the potted pansies on the front porch, down to the stone steps and then watched it as it lay there to drown,

 but not before I rushed inside for my camera to catch it in it's last stage of autumn glory.

 I may have been too late for pansies last spring, due to my waiting a day or two too long to drive to the nursery,

but this fall they were once again on my list of 'must haves'.

The flower I have loved the most since childhood,

and nothing will every change that.