October 6, 2008
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My life is very quiet lately.
The weather is on again off again rain with much cooler temps, but not yet near freezing. This is when I seem to start hibernating, and have to almost force myself outside.
I did put in an order for a particular book from the library, and they let me know it had come in, so, grabbing the break in weather, and my camera, I went to pick it up. I really am out of whatever it is that gets me going where picture taking is concerned, and just took two.
A squirrel eating something he had found on the library grounds
and the last flowers on their Red Hot Pokers. Mine were finished months ago so this was a delight and a surprise to see. Everything else looked finished. Not even the pretty fall colors there this time, though a lot of the trees are still green.
Home again I decided to take this one of my new Hollyhock – supposed to be a brilliant orange one, it is not quite the color they say, and has taken all summer long to get to this point. At least it is flowering before the frost hits it. This one is in a pot and I am leaving it out there for the winter. It will be interesting to see if it survives and comes back for me next year.
Comments (4)
I haven’t even gone out today. lol
that is a pretty flower and the pockers are neat -we don’t have here or I’ve never noticed orange flowers
Our squirrels are very active today I noticed
Wow, great pixs. Have a good day girl!
You really do capture some lovely images. Thanks for sharing.
That is a lovely hollyhock! I have a weakness for hollyhocks, and once had a coral coloured specimen that grew 17 stalks. It was the largest hollyhock I’d ever seen nor have seen since. I purchased the little plant from a woman who had a lawn sale in St. Paul. It never came back though, which is very strange. Usually, hollyhocks will come back year after year with new seedlings. Since moving, I have had to begin my hollyhock craze all anew.
You have such divine photography here.
Blessings~