A Rose by any other name......

....... would smell as sweet.

This one is called Sea Pearl and has a light fragrance.

I absolutely loved this bloom! I cut it and brought it into the house where we enjoyed it all last week.

The bush is one of the two survivors out of the 5 we planted late last fall. It's still small and had only 3 blooms. The other bush didn't bloom at all.

I hope they both make it through the coming winter.

Alice came down to the mailbox with me this morning, and kept watch from the fence.

There's some fall color in the hedgerow across the road. Not too many of the trees have turned color yet, but we're gradually seeing more. I hope the leaves won't fall too quickly and give us a disappointing show. A dry year usually gives the best color, and we certainly haven't had dry weather this spring and summer!!

Last week we had some lovely sunny days....good haying weather, for bringing in second cutting. This week we've mostly had rainy afternoons and evenings, but the temperatures have been mild....60's during the day ( around 17ºC).

We've been lucky to avoid a frost so far. The temperature went down to 35ºF (1.6C) one night last week. We covered tomatoes and brought containers in, but when morning came we were so happy to find no frost! We finally have a few plants producing zucchini, after several unsuccessful attempts during the spring and summer. It was just too wet!

Our sweet corn was a wash out too. We only had about 4 meals from the early corn. the stalks were so short that the crows could stand on the ground and eat the ears, so they filled their stomaches and we had the few they left for us.....the greedy beasts! The later Silver Queen, our favorite, didn't even form ears. It's the first year ever that we haven't had corn to freeze. We usually have enough to feed friends and neighbors too!

The wild asters are blooming profusely in the meadows.....


.......and up by the barn.



There are two shades of purple. This is the lighter one. The deeper color is two photos up.

Nature provides us with these lovely wild flowers that need no tending!

The gladioli that I planted late in the flower gardens are blooming. That's Grady posing for me. He came down to the mail box too. I always have plenty of company :)



Lovely color with the afternoon sun shining through on Monday.



This pink glad is breathtaking.

The foxglove is reblooming behind it.



This bright pink aster got lost among the tall rudbeckia during the summer. I forgot that I'd moved it here last year, otherwise I would've thinned more of the rubeckia around it. Poor thing is tough though, and is blooming in spite of my neglect.



It's such a nice bright spot of color, when there's not a lot still blooming in the fall.



Obedient plant (Physostegia Virginiana) is another late bloomer. It does well in this garden where I can keep it under control. It tends to take over.







I love the shape of the flowers.



Toby was soaking up the afternoon sun on Monday afternoon, when we actually had some sunshine!



And Murphy was doing what he does best...playing!

Kathy says thank you very much to everyone for the happy birthday wishes and lovely comments.

Thank you all so much for visiting! I hope you all had a wonderful day.