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...

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...

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.

Getting ready for Spring 2009...

Mom planted tulip, lily, and daffodil bulbs over the weekend. Starting in mid-to-late March, we'll have a bunch a beauties growing!

Some of the bulbs about to be covered in dirt for their winter nap:



I guess the growing season is over. We're getting a first bit of snow tomorrow. Snow mixed with rain...but it's going to be sunny and warm over the weekend. Indian Summer is going to be late this year.

Mom's new toy!

A rain barrel! Sometimes we get so much rain, we want to save some of it. Once it's filled, a hose can be attached to the bottom to water plants.

Still looking somewhat nice!

There are still some flowers growing. I think they will keep coming until the first frost.

The official end of summer approaches...

It's starting to look like fall in the garden. Most of the veggie plants are about done. The tomatoes are still doing somewhat well, though the extra rain from Hanna caused some vine rot. There are still quite a few flowers.

I forgot to post some pictures that I took of some butterflies and the only praying mantis that isn't camera shy...so here they are: