Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Snow on snow on snow...

The first snow of the season hit my area today. Not much, and it didn't really stick, but it's snow. Yuck. The garden season is pretty much over:

The flowers that survived the first frost were covered with gritty, dry, snow pellets.







The cats don't like it much. Kira acted surprised:



I'm already looking forward to spring...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Late fall flowers...

I'm not so surprised about the roses lasting this long. The iris is a big surprise, though! I haven't seen an iris in the garden since late June. Where did this one come from? And it's not the first- there was a beautiful purple iris in the garden about a month ago.

Roses and rosebuds...they just keep coming, despite the colder weather and some frost!




A "Julia Child" rose. Normally, they're yellow, but they've turned a bit peach in the fall. Weird.


The surprise iris. With more to come...

Monday, November 10, 2008

Itty Bitty Pumpkin!

Mom had no luck with pumpkins this year. She found this one over the weekend. It's barely an inch long and less than an inch high, but it is a pumpkin...it's so cute!



Not much bigger than the Hershey's Kiss I put next to it.