*AKA - what's going on around here? First of all, you will notice a change in the Chances R picture. It is of the clematis and was taken five years ago today. This year for the first time it did not bloom. Neither did the poppies nor iris. I don't know why. 😕
As summer begins fading into autumn, the sun moves along on it's southerly slide. (Photo from last evening.)
This morning I ran the furnace for a few minutes, mainly to take the 5:00 a.m. chill out but also to check that the furnace still works.
Outside the deck is getting a much needed straightening and shoring up.
In the past HD has taken on this task. This year we hired the experts and they are doing a very professional job.
Next spring/summer - time to paint it again.
Of course everything had to come off the deck with the table, chairs, etc. going on the side deck and the pots of plants on the patio.
These few items are in the corner at the top of the stairs.
I didn't do it on purpose, but I think it makes a pleasing, if temporary, arrangement.
This is on the north side of the house where Bud (Hubby Dearest) got a head start on the fall clean up by mowing off all the flowers there.
The snow-on-the-mountain had completely taken over and was looking very straggly.
It will all come back next year and look more orderly if I get a few things dug and moved closer to the house - mainly the ferns.
The peonies won't get cut back until after the first frost - which just might be earlier than usual this year if the forecasters are right.
The one volunteer sunflower I let grow is doing its cheerful sunflowery thing. 🌻
All the pictures of the big sunflower fields are beautiful but I'm happy with just one stalk.
At the bottom of the right hand corner is a glimpse of the bird bath that was here when we moved in. It had a crack in the basin part so I asked HD to get rid of it. He was going to put it on the curb with a free sign but the neighbor said he would take it. A little tube of concrete repair, a little paint, and it will be as good as new.
This pink Rose of Sharon (hibiscus syriacus, part of the mallow family) is beautiful this year. The pink and white one next to it blooms first and then this one.
This one is my favorite.
I mentioned that all the deck plants were on the patio now, but this planter, the old mailbox that was on the farm since I was very young, is always here, next to the steps on the patio.
Planted in different flowers each year and most oftenly herbs, this was the year for goreous pink, glowing, impatiens.
With another pot of them on the table between the chairs.
The water can has developed a fine patina.
The little turquoise bead is one Bud picked up on his walk and brought to me. I may have aforementioned his likeness to a jackdaw. 😍
Not a recent photo - one I took a two or three weeks ago after the a/c ran during a very warm night.
At first I didn't know what was going on in the top left on the outside of the window.
Then I realized a spider had made its web; condensation did the rest.
I'm also remembering, and missing, my dear friend Kristina. Today would have been her 78th birthday.
Bud and I were reminiscing about the wadi behind her home in Tucson and how much we both enjoyed it. Him running through it, me walking and picking up rocks - lots and lots of rocks.
On this date in1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed which ended the American Revolutionary War. Strangely enough, the book I began reading yesterday is about the start of the American Revolution.
It's late afternoon now. Their job is done and the workmen have gone. Much of what was on the deck is back on the deck.
It is unbelievable how solid and straight the deck now is. What a difference - time for a late summer deck party?
