What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
Everyone seemed to like last weeks relaxed squirrel picture so much that I figured you’d probably enjoy this photo of a chipmunk being fed a snack.
I didn’t not take this picture, nor is it me in the photo, but I have feed a chipmunk like this in the past.
They are fairly timid, but once they get used to you they’ll come up and take peanuts, bread or other snacks right from your hand, or as in this case, right from your mouth.
Well it seems that my garden has finally got the message that winter is coming.
There are still some stubborn roses sticking around, but they are no longer alive. The cold got to them and they are just there. Actually I’m hoping that I can take some pictures of them with frost or a light coating of snow on them one of these days as I think that will probably look pretty.
There’s also one single clematis flower on the vine at the front of the house. Like the roses it’s dead, but it’s still holding it’s color. I’m sure it fooled a few people that might have noticed it.
Since I don’t have any pictures of frosty flowers or snow covered plants to show you today I’ll have to fall back on pictures that I took earlier this summer.
One flower that stands out is the annual asters that I grew this summer. They were so pretty! Such vibrant dusty rose pinks, purples, blue and white flowers.
They started blooming in late July (if memory serves me) and continued to produce lovely blooms until early October.
The annual Aster plants are 12 inches or less in height so they are the perfect size for a garden border. I planted several of them in the open spaces at the edge of my raised garden beds, beside lavenders and hostas and they looked lovely.
Did you grow Asters this past summer?
Wordless Wednesday
There’s nothing like lying down with a snack. Obviously squirrels like doing this too!
I think this is some kind of red squirrel.
It’s not one that we have around here in Ontario though! Actually I think red squirrels are either very rare or extinct in this area.
We don’t even see all that many grey squirrels, the area is mostly populated with black squirrels.
Don’t you love this squirrels ears?