Fall colors

 Our trees are nearly at their peak of Fall color.

Fountain Grass

I’ve been growing Purple Fountain Grass and Prairie Winds Fountain Grass for several years (in pots) but they’ve never grown as much as this year. Could it be the drier than usual summer and fall?

 

 

Tonight's Hunter's Moon

Native Americans called the October full moon the Hunter's Moon because tribes hunted and gathered meat for the long winter ahead.  The next full moon will be on Halloween (a BLUE MOON as it's the second full moon in a calendar month).  I took this photo from my house last night as it will be too cloudy tonight.

Photo: Marge Ishmael

 

Sunflowers

 Two cute cottages with sunflowers on today's walk.

Late summer outdoor get together

 At my friend Helen's - with honey from her daughter's bees; fizz; wildflower bouquet.

 

Baby opossum

 A baby opposum asleep in our hostas.   

 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/group/opossums/

Otters vanished and everything else crumbled

 

Photo: Ron Niebrugge/Alamy.  In the Aleutians' delicate seascape, otters hold the entire ecosystem together. As they disappeared, the rest of the food web started to crumble — a process that's been accelerated and compounded by climate change, Dr. Estes and his colleagues report in the journal Science.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/science/otters-sea-urchins-alaska.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=curfbclid=IwAR0A4wvCTPjV7Mw900R0bsBU8BpU5LVEId6M9hUDcseEjEON70PVK_epQB4