Good morning, gardeners! You can always tell when it's fall around here, because the grain elevators are starting to fill with corn and milo. The combines are in the fields mowing down rows of brown dried corn stalks, and trucks and tractors fill the normally quiet roads, as farmers start the harvest.
And what a corn harvest it will be this year, with all the extra rain we got this summer!
Here, trucks coming in from the fields wait in line to unload, then they'll go back out for more corn, and when that's done, they move on to the next field.
There's not much going on in the garden in my yard, I've cut down all the spent maximillian sunflowers to prevent reseeding and about the only thing left blooming is my zinnias and dahlias. That was fortunate, because the monarch migration was 2 weeks later than normal, so there was still some food around for them.
The dahlias also hosted some orange sulphur butterflies for several days, one of the most common in the US, but rarely seen around here.
So that's what's going on in western Kansas, what's happening in your neck of the woods?