34: Goodbye September

 

35: OUR BALLOTS CAME!!

 We promptly filled them out and dropped them in the 

secure drop box at the Town Clerk's office!!

 

WE VOTED!!!

36: This says it for me...

We saw this bumper sticker in Montpelier!

What I love about it is that, to me, it says I'm not voting FOR Biden but against DT!

When we got home, I googled it.  Then I ordered some oval magnets like this...

 

...and some bumper stickers like this.  

First the bumper stickers will go on the cars.  

Then, after the Election, the magnets will be perfect!

There are also buttons and yard signs!
 

37: Golden Foliage Day

38: My COVID-19 hair style

 

39: Lovely Vermont

 

40: MINT

 

41: Honey Bee on Autumn Joy Sedum

 

42: Autumn!

 The fall equinox arrives on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 

at 9:31 A.M everywhere. 

The equinox occurs at the same time of day worldwide.

43: International Day of Peace

Peace Rose

A VT Granddaughter is 5 today

This is part of her gift

(shown life size)

 

44: Farewell Summer

 

RIP RBG ("She gave all she had" and then some.)

 

46: 💜💙💜 HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUDDLERIVER~! 💙💜💙

💙We hope you're still catching sweet dreams! 💜

47: Eating Out

48: Just Hangin'

 

ROMEO & JULIET have fledged!

These two were inseparable. They often shared a leaf as caterpillars. They made their chrysalises side by side on the same day, Romeo first, then Juliet. Last evening they hatched 20 minutes apart, Juliet first. Today they fledged just 4 minutes apart, Juliet, followed by Romeo, who flew right up and over the house! May they fare better than their Shakespearean counterparts.

49: Female Monarch and Garden Flowers

 

50: Zinnias over the Path

The building this path leads to is closed.  For that reason, the flowers have leaned over into the path!  I've never seen it like this before, and probably never will again. 

51: The Figure-8 Sailing Race is today

 Wil and Root*Center*Son will be sailing through the Inner Bay and Outer Bay, through The Cut, then out onto the Broad Lake to sail a figure-8 around two large islands in Lake Champlain, then all the way back again!  I hope to be at this location to get some photos of the race from shore.

UPDATE: High winds have postponed the race by one week.

52 DAYS until Election Day!

 

Grace Roses for the 19th Ann. of 9/11

 

Birthday Tea Party 🎂

Wil bought me this set for my birthday

in both the full size tea set and the miniature children's size!

The designs are all from the Brambly Hedge books by Jill Barklem, 

which I have read to some of the grands. I guess you only turn 65 once!

Summer Lily

 

Nina Bahinskaya is an activist hero in Belarus

 

Monarchs: Round 2

Our very last Monarch caterpillar will soon make it's chrysalis

Ready to hatch!  

The chrysalis has turned clear and here we see the butterfly through it!

 

Labor Day 2020

Did you know that we celebrate Labor Day in September instead of May (the other date proposed) because President Grover Cleveland didn't want the day to be associated with the Haymarket Square Riot?  I'll bet Bill knew that, because it took place in Chicago.  Or maybe not because, after all, it happened on 4 May 1886...when a large crowd was protesting at a labor rally and 200 police officers came to break it up, and someone threw a bomb at the police who then opened fire on the crowd.  I read this and thought how it sounds too much like today.

"The demonstration, which drew some 1,500 Chicago workers, was organized by German-born labor radicals in protest of the killing of a striker by the Chicago police the day before. Midway into the rally, which had thinned out because of rain, a force of nearly 200 policemen arrived to disperse the workers. As the police advanced toward the 300 remaining protesters, an individual who was never positively identified threw a bomb at them. After the explosion and subsequent police gunfire, more than a dozen people lay dead or dying, and close to 100 were injured."

Black Swallowtail Butterfly in Progress

Caterpillar on Carrot Green

Preparing to Pupate

Chrysalis!

 

Porch Time

 

Bonfire!

 

It's Happening! 5 Butterflies so far! More hatching soon.

 

Maturing Garden