09-28-2014 A sense of Fall!

This is a "Toad Lily"! I would love to see what a "frog lily" should look like!

One of the things a gardener will appreciate at this time of year is the temperature drop, allowing one to work out in the garden without frying or melting. The lack of humidity , being able to breathe!
With the cooler nights, we also get nice dewy morning even though this little fellow may have had a little too much of it:

This is the time when summer clean-up should be done, removing old and tired looking summer plants and making room for Fall lettuce or Winter leeks, onions, Brussels sprouts, kale, chervil, and endive.

This is also the last season for bright colors before everything turns into grayish green for the next few weeks.

Cotton! Nice flowers but still waiting for the stuff to make my T shirts.

This last winter's cold precluded me from getting any banana flower short of this little runt.

Pineapple sage! Rubbing its leaves frees that pineapple scent. I love that color in Fall. Hummingbirds and the last few honeybees still flying around here go crazy over it.

Second raspberry crop, not quite as tasty as the Spring ones; not to mention they ripen a couple at a time.

I lost half this fig tree to last Winter's frost and it too, produces half a dozen of fruit at a time; just enough to get a daily taste but there won't be any jam this year.

09-08-2014 A rainy day!

Rainy day in the garden! 

I missed the rain! For the last tens days I have had to face swarms of ravenous mosquitoes and temps in the high 90s to water my garden.

I had been spoiled this year, with regular rains falling at manageable intervals...until the last few days.

Baby eggplant enjoying its outdoors shower. It's summer after all!

When I did a quick check between cloud bursts to make sure my new transplants had not drowned and I noticed...I just about stuck my face in that waterlogged spider web. It is amazing that it can hold this much water and not shatter!

What a carrot looks like if you let it go to bloom!