Autumn Storms and Summer Lingerers

 Saturday morning we attended a very pleasant meeting of our garden club. Gretchen  is an expert gardener, and hosted a presentation on focus in the garden. As I arrived in her garden I focused on this!

Of course it was an inside meeting because the promised wind and rain had begun. After a light lunch and lots of visiting we drove home through glorious autumn color, dimmed only slightly by the rain on the windshield. 

I forgot to buy flowers at the store on Friday, so in a break in the rain we went out to gather what we could of the remnants of summer flowers in the garden. 

The rest of the day we were inside as the wind blew, the lights blinked, the rain poured, and I watched college football.

There was quite a mess in the morning on Sunday, but we did not lose power or have trees down like many did in the region. 

All of the clean up we had done was undone, but there is no hurry. There is more cedar to come down, and most of our leaves are just starting to color up. Fall isn't done falling yet. 

But while I was out during a break in Sunday's rain I took a few photos of the remnants of summer.

Each of the brugmansias are putting on a few more buds and blooms.

The hostas are going golden.

The wood from the tree trimming is stacked. 

And today the sun was shining so after doing the housework and laundry this morning, we got outside this afternoon for an hour to start the clean up. 

And just for fun, have you heard about the pink salamander, the Axolotl, that is all the rage in inflatable costumes that are showing up at political rallies?  Protestors do have fun.