JUST THE SKY

It was in the heat of the summer

when we prayed for these clouds

to come into the plain sizzling clear blue skies..

Now here they are high above

those

little puffs

are ice formations.

An airplane in the sky

crossing perhaps at 40 Thousand miles above

but that is not

a commercial

plane

The clouds are always moving,

there will be no two same shot



They are so gentle, kind and loving clouds
no threat in them
to do any harm



Endlessly changing clouds in the sky

The Sun is there behind

getting down

in the evening hours
to say:

Good night!

COUNTRY EVENTS

Come to a country fair

we are going to get some pumpkins and flowers



the smiley pumpkin is a sweet baby

I am a handy handbag not a pumpkin

or

a pumpkin-handbag

and
very useful

at your shopping :)

He is serious

because

worried if they going to buy him?

we are here just

as plain

pumpkins

for decoration

or

for a sweet meal

but in any case:

we grew the whole summer

for fun

in the Fall:

Please take us home!

October Pictures

Hiding pumpkin

You can see me now

Mums are the flowers of the month

Funny Fall with full of fun

Photos by Blue bird@

October 1, 2010

Early this morning my neighbor called: " Julia there is a big branch on the top of your car"
The tropical storm "Nicole" was pouring rain all night
and a weak branch partially dead
from the old oak tree
fell over.
But also pulled a wire from my neighbor's house.
Because of the wire
lot of activity was involved not knowing
if the hanging wire
was any danger or not?
It was my neighbor's TV cable.
When the rain stopped
I pulled the car out under the branch
and went shopping
for the week end.
The cable people came late afternoon,
my neighbor removed the branch
and now
we are ready to celebrate
that nothing more serious happened.
My car did not have a scratch.

some interesting events in my garden

Nature and man made flowers hard to distinguish in this year curiosities in my garden.

I never did this mixing, but

the difficulties giving by the weather

made me to help with silk flowers.

In a little crack on the driveway

perhaps from a windblown seed

grew a little pine tree baby.

I got it into a pot and

being so grateful

grew a lot in a year!

Miracle in my garden.

I did not plant this flower, which is a petunia

with velvety dark purple color.
I used to water the pot of silk flowers

like they were real.

And one day it became real as this petunia

from a dormant seed emerged

between the silk flowers!
May be 2 years ago there were petunias in this pot

but through brutal cold winter some seeds

remained alive.

Amazing.

For some unknown reason

this year

my old oak trees

brought more acorns than ever before

The size is big

like they were hazelnuts




The amount is just bushel after bushel
cleaning them constantly
a never ending work
this year.
No need to feed squirrels.
Nature provides :)

IT'S RAINING

In these days at the end of September

after a stressful hot and dry

summer

these clouds

are very welcomed

They were lingering around

for days

until finally started to rain..
Hallelujah!
The heroes of the summer
a Yucca
and an
Ornamental Grass
also appreciate a cool steady rain
after all
they are still living
with water



In a food store I found
my funny friends:
the newly arrived
attraction: the Gourds.
They make me smile because they are just funny
in all kinds of shapes and colors


The more serious stuff:
for feeding the people
beautiful vegetables
are there
for a healthy diet





My favored are:
the Turnips!
I wish could find a recipe
what was for a most delicious meal
made with turnips.
I would love to post it here for you
but at this moment
I can not find it
but promise for later
I'll get it for posting. :-)

Found new LOVE

So is in Nature if you follow the rules:

When you get rejected,

may be even beaten up with nasty treatment:

You get up, dust yourself off

and look for new LOVE

because

" Who seeks will find"

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To understand what I am talking about is:

This year's

very bad treatment

of my beloved garden

with

unusual weather of heat and

drought!

:(((((((((((((((((((((((((:(

I got depressed as I saw my garden dieing in the heat

and the watering was no help

against the burning hot air.

Than I went in the evenings as the Sun was setting down

in this suburb, where I live.

( I gave up my Sun worship for this Summer.)

I looked and saw what is happening

outside of my territory :(

Mostly was heart breaking landscape:(

but I found plants with no sign

of wilting or any suffering :)))

I found my new Love:

the ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

in many places around stores and banks

where professional gardeners planted with

knowledge of counting

on this kind of possibility

the killer heat and drought :-((((((

I saw them before,

but never paid much attention.

My New Love for the

ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

is burning now

with all my curiosity while

searching for the best for my garden.

No problem with a computer.

I already received my first order

from a gardening in Ohio:

for $ 10.00 thousand seeds of the

Hairy Blue Grass.