Still too much rain - too many in our community have been hit twice with floods and damage... hard to say "too much rain" after all these drought years but yes, this IS too much rain. The fall has been comfortable so far and there is still quite a lot in bloom.

Jack Ryan Sheiffield Mum - attracts all kinds of wonderful bees, and butterflies and moths and unknowns...

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Tiny bee on a magenta mum

Sheiffield Daisy Mum

Caterpillar looks like he is trying to hide his little face...

November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.
Emily Dickinson

The butterflies are late this year but are always welcome

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence.
Thomas Hood, Ode: Autumn, 1827

I am a just little catter and I am stuck up on this bare parsley branch

Los of beautiful mushrooms
The name 'November' is believed to derive from 'novem' which is the Latin for the number 'nine'.  In the ancient Roman calendar November was the ninth month after March.  As part of the seasonal calendar November is the time of the 'Snow Moon' according to Pagan beliefs and the period described as the 'Moon of the Falling Leaves' by Black Elk

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