After a few more days of rain, we finally had a warm and sunny day today, with a temperature of around 80 degrees. The warm sunshine brought the bees and sulphur butterflies to my still-blooming flowers. (We have so many of these sulphur butterflies here right now. I counted more than a dozen of them [...]
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More Fall Color
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, Great Smoky Mountains, Photos, nature, outdoors, tagged color, fall color in the mountains, leaves, maple, trees on October 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Colorful Leaves
Posted in Daily Walks, Photo of the day, Photos, nature, outdoors, yard, tagged dogwoods, fall color, fall leaves, peak color, sourwood, trees on October 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
After nearly a month of torrential rains here and cooler windy weather for the past couple of days, a lot of the leaves have already fallen. There is lot of green still left in the mountains but in the sunniest areas, the leaves are bright and pretty. These photos were all taken from my yard. [...]
Happy first day of Fall
Posted in Daily Walks, Flowers, Garden, Photos, Quotes, Misc Words, nature, tagged asters blooming, autumn quotes, fall decorations, first day of fall, quotes about fall, seasons on September 22, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Autumn’s the mellow time.
-William Allingham
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A scarecrow in my flower bed.
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When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.-Sarah Helen Whitman
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A squirrel hanging upside down in a dogwood tree, enjoying the ripening berries.
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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil paintingand autumn a mosaic of them all.-Stanley Horowitz
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Mums, fall decorations, [...]








