Milkweed, fall colours, gladiolas...

 The garden continue to slow up. However, I found two milkweed plants that have just sprouted. They don't have a hope. Soon we'll be into cold temperatures. We had frost early in the spring and took out a lot of milkweed. 

UPDATE: I know there is an app for this, but I hesitate to load up my phone! 

They are groundcherries, genus physalis (AKA bladder), in the nightshade family.

I'm not sure what this is. I tend to think nothing good, but... the flower is pretty.

I just loved these spots of colour!

The pumpkin is a bright spot of colour that will remain until I harvest the seeds. I give the flesh to the critters, but toast the seeds for myself. They really like the pumpkins, when all the other fruit is gone.

I went down the road to two of our local farms and bought some pumpkins, as well as an armload of gladiolas. 

Last year, I took the girls down to the market stand.

The older I get the worse I get at gardening. It was lovely buying them. The red vase was from the online auction last month: The Auction Pickup in Spencerville Part 1. The painting is one Caitlin gave me!

I was up early one morning. You can see the difference in personalities in the two cats. Nutmeg boldly goes off, while Cinnamon looks about.

cats from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

 🐻SNUGGLE Bears

While a new idea for a tableaux is a challenge, JB outdid himself with this one!

Funny tale, it took me 15 minutes to think of the word tableaux! Eventually, I remembered the last syllable. Then, I went to Rhyme Zone, and found it!