Michaelmas Daisies (Asters)

 

Golden and Crispy

 

Last Monarch Butterfly of the Season

 

The Sunflower the Birds Planted

 

ALLY Then and Now

                 
Plastic wrapped and ready for a bath.                             FIRST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL!
EVERY time she had a bath, she had
to be wrapped up, so her broviac
catheter would not get wet and
cause an infection.


    Ready to go home from a month, stuck in one         Coping an attitude or two at the art museum
    tiny hospital room, after chemo that killed
    everything in her body, including the ability for
    her bone marrow to work. She saved her own life,
    with her own stem cells.

Double click on photos to enlarge.

Placing a (male) Monarch Butterfly onto the Autumn Joy Sedum

As of 3:20pm today, it's AUTUMN!

 

International Day of Peace

Peace Rose

 

Sailing Race!

 
The Schulte Boat took first place in a nearly 4 hour race on Talk Like a Pirate Day!

🤣

 

🎉Happy Birthday, puddle!! 💐

 

Crabapple Tree

 

Sweet Allysum

 

Newsom NOT recalled

 

Changing with the Season

 

The Arc of the Universe...

Then! Eldest’s comment did my heart good:

 

Making California Raisins

Alan's bride Miyoko, with this year's raisin crop in progress.

9/11 ~ 20th Anniversary

 

Let 'em eat cake!

 

Autumn Joy Sedum

Early September, beginning to colour 

Meet Thalia Grace, who made her chrysalis on Littlest*Grand's 2nd birthday and hatched out today! Hers was the chrysalis showing in yesterday's front page photo!                                 

Later in September, colour deepening

Raising Monarchs

 

🎉38 Years of Love 💛💛

✨💛💛✨

                                         

Labor Day

Nashville, TN, 1943 via Wikipedia

 

Yup. Already.

 

Dopplar Radar showing possible Tornado

You may already know how to spot a tornado on Dopplar Radar, but I have seldom seen such a clear picture of it.  When you see both green and red right next to each other, you are seeing both cool air and warm air in juxtaposition that inspires rotation.  In this case, there was warm moist air (the worst kind for this) and we were watching it closely because my brother and family were in Dennisport, with the storm moving toward the west.  But just at this point the storm moved more to the NW, missing Dennisport! Whew!  Especially as it was around 3:00am and they were in a small beach cottage with no basement. I have to wonder how others fared.

It's time for Mums

 

Butterfly on Lavendar

Welcome, September!

 
               VT*Grand turns 14 today!! 😮

Good-Bye, August!

The US left Kabul on Monday.

An US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on August 30. Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images

Guess who's going to last longest?

 

Grace Roses

Littlest*Grand (Grace) turns 2 today! 

Peace Rose

 

This!

 

Almost Sunset

 

After the Storm

 

Tufted Titmouse in the Rain

Good Question

 

HENRI has made Landfall!

HENRI at 5:00pm, over Catreona's house

HENRI at Landfall...

12:15pm  Westerly RI  60mph  989mb

New York City received about 4" of rain in a few hours on Saturday evening.