The last of the flowers!

 I bought a dozen white and fuschia-coloured Hibiscus, on sale several years ago. I've only a few left and this one out front is spectacular. I preferred the pinker ones, but this will have to do.

The Angel's Trumpet flowers only last a day. But they are magnificent and I will have photos when we're in the depths of winter!

The orchid is finally getting new flowers. I accidentally broke off the last branch trying to rein it in back in the spring. It's indoors now, with the grow light on it. Tiberius is sitting beside it. It looks pretty at night. Soon I'll have to bring in all my house plants. Not for a couple of weeks, though. I keep checking the forecast.

I've still got a tree frog in the house. Of course froggie could be in the basement by now.

I found out some more information on the buck spotted on the trailcam. This was early August.

 

The goldfish pond pump is finally where and how I like it running. I likely only have another month to keep it going. Then, a sure sign of Autumn, goldfishies will come indoors.

The wild grapes are looking good. We have quite a few.

The phlox, trampled on by the eavestrough installation, have bravely bloomed. I hope they will come back with a vengeance next year!

Orchid spider eating lunch on a brown-eyed susan.

I could hear birds in the canopy. I didn't have the zoom lens on me, and figured they'd be gone by the time I fetched it. I could see they were red-eyed vireo. I have photos of them in my archives. It was fun watching and listening to them!

Soon they will migrate, bug eaters they are. Soon our bugs will be gone, too. She said hopefully. I was bitten by another blackfly when I was weeding, and had a tick on my neck, as well. Just a wee nymph, and I'll be glad when they are hibernating.

Another fun visitor was what I think what was a female rose-breasted grosbeak. They definitely nested nearby. So it isn't unusual, but fun to watch through the window screen.

Then there is Fred Groundhog... he was peeking at me. This is the hole he dug. I don't know if he has dug a burrow here. He'll run and hide.

The few milkweed we have will have some fine seeds. I might gather them and spread them in another spot, rather that on the lawn here. 

This little hosta plant has bravely bloomed, despite a trimming from Bambi.

The ferns are done! Too hot and too dry, although I watered them (infrequently).

I baked hubby some vegan irish soda bread (recipe). It was finally cool enough to put the oven on.