Summer's End

I relish the last days of summer when the weather is starting to cool off, the plants revive to give a last flourish of color and the days begin to get a little shorter.  Back porch swing time........lovely.

Marigolds

Garden house porch

The sweet potato vine that ate the world and volunteer tomato plants from the compost pile in the background.

A jumble of old fashioned flowers at the garden fence.

In an attempt to discourage the crows from completely depriving us of the last of our tomato crop, John, Blake and I constructed this decidedly unoriginal scarecrow.  Surprisingly, it has worked so far.  Poor Poppy is certainly a believer........she has barked her poor head off at the thing.

Have you ever seen a running fern?  For a couple of years after we moved here, this vine kept popping up out of the miniature gardenias.  After pulling it up for the first two years, I finally took notice of it last year and realized it looked like a fern!  I have since provided it with a small trellis and it has flourished for the last two summers.

This is Jackson with his teacher.  He is really growing up and has quite the personality.  He started 3 year old preschool today and he was really looking forward to it.............can you tell from that look???

Did I mention that it's a dog's life around here?

GRATITUDES:

Naps on the backporch swing.

The sweet snore of these old doggies.

Fresh eggs.....and there were two yesterday morning.....we definitely have two layers.

Take care,

Jennie