Signs of Fall
In case you didn’t know, it’s Fall.
For the next 8 weeks I will be gushing about falling, crunchy leaves, peeling bark, sunset colored flowers, and the like. Feel free to barf all over your computer. But believe me, it is a good, good time of year.
Here are a few pictures to prove to you it’s Fall.
Buh-Bye summer flowers! My borage and roses and salvias all got their asses handed to them in the wind storm we had this weekend. I spent most of the weekend inside doing inside-y things. Every once in a while I’d glance outside and watch the destruction of my little front garden. I’m bummed to see the sunflowers and most of the borage and salvias gone – but I can’t really complain since they were absolutely fabulous this summer. Really, they did their job and are ready to go to sleep. I don’t blame them. (Ps – above is a great way to lose your Felcos!!)
Yum, right?
This is a super cheese-tastic picture, but it was really stormy and windy and I thought it looked cool. I reserve the right to be annoyed at other people’s cheese-tastic cloud pictures, and I reserve the right to delete this one if I so choose.
What makes it Fall in your garden?
11 Responses to “Signs of Fall”
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That bucket looks like it could be a nice pot pourri!
Fall in my garden means no more swamp pants.
Thanks for the laugh! You’re probably thinking “funny? I was waxing poetically about Fall, you idiot…” but the way you say your poor flowers got their asses handed to them, and cheese-tastic is great….
Love the curled up petals in the first shot. Everything gets a new kind of beauty this time of year… just this side of decay, I guess – sad but lovely! Good thing those felcos have red handles!
The fragrance of moisture on the foliage is what tells me it is fall. My lemons are ripening and turning a lovely yellow, the salvias are pushing one more flush of blooms, and the Muhlenbergia rigens is turning golden. Other than that, it is more of a feeling of change carried on the autumn breeze.
I love to see ripe lemons in the winter! they smell so wonderful, too…
Fall is really the best. It’s hard for me, with the light changing and all, but the colors and the light make it worth the shorter days and occasional bummer days. In my “garden” (i.e. the nature and urban nature around me), I think I’m most reminded it’s autumn by the ubiquitous yellow, orange, and black spiders with their overlapping webs on every plane imaginable, strung from one drying seed-head to another….Also, the ginkgo leaves changing from bright green to a crisp gold.
Wow, what is that gorgeous thing in the first photo? It is witchhazel?
It’s actually just a type of gazania flower that is almost ready to be dead-headed. It’s petals curl in once its dying. Although I love witch hazel and need to plant some in my garden.
Me and my husband completely enjoyed this article, we are sitting down right now to a cup of tea and talking with the laptop beside us. Just some questions: When did you get into blogging?
Fall = leaf barrels and the joy knowing you will have free leaf mulch next year!