It was a gray day but warm enough for just short sleeves:
Our succulent planting is hanging on but did not enjoying a week of freezing overnight temperatures:
We’ve had a lot of hawk predation at our bird feeders so we’re leaving this mostly dead stand of blue salvia up to provide extra cover for the song birds:
It is dead now but this is how thick the pumpkin vine got:
Picked some collards for tonight’s dinner:
This is probably the biggest cool season planting we’ve had to date:
Plants largely unfazed by the freezing overnight temps -
Yellow field pea:
Pincushion flower:
Cilantro:
The lone warbler is back. These three photos are as close as it would let me get:
Barking at the dogs next door:
All shagged out after a long bark:
Tonight’s menu:
My queen’s handiwork:
Except for my side dish, dinner was in my queen’s hands. My job was to keep the sink from getting too cluttered up with dishes. I also diced all the onions needed for the meal & grated some cheese:
I did a vine theme for pumpkin carving this year. A pumpkin pumpkin and a rose pumpkin.
I'd made a poll asking whether to do vines or draw Dan and Valerie from Danny Phantom, or both. ...And although 'vines' won, the idea of adding something Dan and Val related was too compelling. The thought of deep red roses with their thorns being like Valerie. ...And, well, I suppose Dan's like a big heavy pumpkin being thrown at stuff?
I tried making the plants wrap around an object representing them, Dan in a D shape and Valerie in a triangle shape. Though it's not very noticeable.