More Trees

On Wednesday we moved our gardening to Whidbey Island, where we spent about two hours planting things in the cabin garden. I worked on planting the tulip bulbs from last year's home garden and Tom planted out the native sea thrift and oxeye daisies he had raised from seed he collected. 

By now we were wearing out, so after a late lunch and a brief rest, we packed up and went to Langley for coffee and dessert and a walk around before heading home. 

I like the broom bouquets and pumpkins in the Boy and Dog Park.

Tom liked having a place to sit.

I have noticed quite a few trees where just one branch or just one part of a tree has colored  up. One just had one branch of apples. 

This one just had  one bright red section. 

 Autumn color is everywhere here right now and it was great to be out driving around while the sun was still shining.

Back home on Thursday we slept in and then were back outside working. Tom used his electric chain saw to cut up all of the "logs" from the trees we had trimmed. I helped hold logs. When that was done, I did some of the clean up under the big fir tree while Tom moved and stacked wood.  Then I just enjoyed being outside in the garden in the late afternoon and took a few photos- of trees.

Our Full Moon Maple and Red Japanese Maple and the dogwoods are just starting to color up. There will be more to come.

You enjoyed seeing two of Tom's bonsai trees, the deciduous ones. He has recently worked on trimming and shaping two of his black pines. 

They look skimpy now, but they have been needle pruned and rewired for shaping. They should be wonderful by next summer. 

And now it is late afternoon on Friday. The rain has arrived. 

We need it. My exercise today was grocery shopping and a half hour on the stationary bike. We will now have to get used to darker, shorter days and more indoor activities. And maybe a break from hard labor. :-)