Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A walk around the yard

This is the same group of trees that are all pink with flowers in the spring, Redbud trees. I don't remember them ever being this yellow. They start dropping their leaves long before the other trees but this year they have taken a break and changed color instead. I have one stubborn Rudbekia that wants to continue blooming after the other plants have gone to seed.
The last zinnia blooms are really straggly but aren't ready to give up. The coneflower seeds are good food for the finches. They are usually the yellow finches but yesterday I saw a bunch of little birds with striped heads having lunch in the back garden.
The burning bush has a lot of berries but not many leaves have turned red yet.
I was promised beautiful color from my Viburnum bush, but usually this is what I get, a few red leaves and then frost and the rest of the leaves drop.
I won't have time to sew today. My dad's lenses for his glasses are ready so we have to take a drive and then we go grocery shopping. Hopefully I will see some beautiful color from nature while we are out.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is nothing better than seeing the "tapestry" of nature in the fall. Our fall is almost over and is ahead of yours. But still like yours there are some hardy plants that will not give up till a very deep freeze.

J~ MT

meggie said...

Thankyou for sharing your garden.
It all looks so different to ours!

Anonymous said...

The best thing about fall colors is the way they can brighten a gloomy, rainy day. Then make a sunny, cold day brilliant.

LD

Quiltdivajulie said...

Thanks for sharing the colors of nature... we get some yellow and gold here, but very little red. Having grown up in Michigan where the trees were vivid and brilliant, the seasonal change here seems muted and a bit dull. But, colors are everywhere if we take time to see them...

TB said...

Beautiful plants in your yard!

Natalya Khorover Aikens said...

I love the colors in your yard! Nature is just gorgeous..