Long summer, now autumn

The summer is gone now, without any post from me!, and we are back in the fall. So: fall garden, pumpkins, bright sourwood leaves, the smell of smoke from neighbor's chimneys. And we can live outside without mosquitoes and other bugs...

February

Hot and cold; some neighbors have daffodils blooming. We have a plan for the Spring, growing fig trees on one side, maybe a Japanese persimmon, and a hedge of some kind along the back border.

Warm January

It's been oscillating between hot and cold this January; I assume February will be colder, but it's hard to believe it's not Spring. We have a bluebird occasionally; I need to get a bird feeder, squirrel proof, and put out seed.