A Little Color on a Dreary Day

October 4, 2010 at 9:38 PM (In the Garden)
Tags: hollyhock, roses, strawberries, toddler

It has been unseasonably cold the past few days.  I’ve been a little under the weather anyways and this dark, chilly day makes me want to take some more NyQuil and go back to bed.

I had to go outside to feed the chickens and get the mail, so Ava and I stopped to smell the roses (and pick some strawberries) along the way. 

These are a few shots of what is still in bloom in my garden this early October.  Knowing that winter is on its way, I’m going to try to appreciate all this color while I still can!  Two more weeks and we’ll be looking for our first frost…

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Large Dahlia

Peace Rose with rain drops.

Second round of bloom on some hollyhocks.

Boldly colored berries on my Varigated Porcelain Berry Vine.

Closeup of crimson red stars on my cypress vine.

Cypress Vine ate my fence!

Heavenly Blue Morning Glory

Lots of Heavenly Blue around front

Christmas Lights ornamental hot peppers.

Had to be quick to get a shot of these Ozark Beauties!

Last few blooms on my Scarlet Runner Beans.

Pods on Scarlet Runner Bean

Scarlet Runner Beans amaze me.

These gourds volunteered from seed of last year’s store-bought gourds.

Tomorrow will mark two years since my husband’s father went to be with Jesus.  He was always one to stop and smell the roses and encouraged others to do the same.  You can see pictures of some of his famous roses and read the tribute I wrote for him last year here.  I hate that my daughter wasn’t old enough to get to know him.  He was really an amazing person and more like a father to me than an “in-law”.

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