Good morning, fellow gardeners and all others, and be welcome! I’m warned by Flickr that I have to pay them money or they’ll take all but 1,000 photos of mine away. I have had a Flickr backup app on my phone for several years and so I tended to gather many pictures there. Over 3,000, to be more exact. So I was looking through them and trying to figure out which ones to delete and which ones to keep.
I’ve selected a few photos from over the years that I think you’ll enjoy. Most were taken in November, although not always.
I found photos of my early garden. This photo is from 2005, the year after we purchased the house. I have photos of the ever-evolving ex-tree garden from the very start. I remember sitting in the back of the house all winter looking out the window and thinking, I cannot wait for spring so I can dig out those giant juniper bushes. You know the ones I mean, the 50 year old spider home behemoths that they used to plant in the old days. I only regret that I did not take a “before” photo.
After I dug out all the giant juniper bushes around these two trees, I found they hid a birdbath, a juniper tree (native), and an apricot tree. All but the bird bath are gone. It’s completely different now.
One year Mr. Light and I went to Grand Junction for a day in the fall, I think September. We spent some time by the Colorado River with the dog. It was a beautiful day for photos, bright and clear.
I visited my mom in the fall of 2014, and we went to the Denver Botanical Gardens. I wrote a diary about the Chihuly display. It was fabulous, along with the flowers, of course. These mums caught my eye. I love the pink against the gray-green leaves.
Fall and early winter are good times to hunt for moss and lichen on the trees and rocks. They come alive and are so photogenic that time of year.
The sun starts to slant into the front living rooms in October, giving me passive solar warmth at lunchtime. I’ll set up a tv table by the front window, which is south-facing, and watch the world go by as I eat my Amy’s enchilada or whatever during the cold months. It’s a good way to get some Vitamin D for SAD as well as providing a sunny spot for some tender annuals to thrive until spring.
This fall I traveled to Vail and Summit County a few times to see a hand surgeon and ultimately had surgery at the end of October on my wrist. Yes, the one I broke this spring. My garden has suffered terribly this year, mostly because of one unfortunate fall. I assure you, I definitely did the right thing going to see this doc because my wrist feels better already and is healing well. I’m told I’ll be close to 100% back to where I was, even though now I can now boast to having some metal in my body. Titanium, so it won’t set off the machines, I’m told. We’ll see.
The snow has started falling in the high country. I hope and pray that the winter will have some snow to speak of and a good wet spring to follow. It’s nice to see snow on the peaks again.
Although I don’t like cold, I’ll take the snow and hopefully I’ll be able to get out in the garden and get to work next spring!
What’s going on in your gardens?