What a summer and fall, so dry and hot! No watering outside now... so we are lugging down buckets of water captured in tubs and totes from the shower and tub, trying to keep the trees and shrubs alive. Pouring on as little as we can before looking to the next wilted beauty in the garden. Keep a pitcher in the kitchen sink to collect any rinse water. Getting rain barrels for the tiny bits of rain that come... At least it is not so HOT now and that helps...

watch for this bad bug as it will eat up your mums...

...and leave them in tatters.

November
In November, dark comes soon.
We turn on the lights, in the afternoon.

Georgeous color inside these wings and very plain outside

Little mantis - finding a fall banquet in the garden.

So many wonderful butterflies still in the garden.

Chopper hopper has good camoflauge

Bee - big eyes looking right back at me!

Wonderful butterflies - late in the season and always appreciated!

"Come, little leaves," said the wind one day,
"Come o'er the meadows with me and play:
Put on your dresses of red and gold -
For summer is gone and the days grow cold." Child's nursery rhyme

What a big green moth!
"...'I don't rejoice in insects at all,' Alice explained, 'but I can tell you the names of some of them.' ... 'What's the use of their having names,' the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' (from Through the Looking Glass) "
Lewis Carroll, (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), British poet, author; born 1/27/1832

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