A veritable shitpile of photos to follow, dial up folks.

So there's a great deal going on today in the garden, color-speaking, and I guess I just went overboard. But that's the spirit of the age, isn't it? Say, I wonder what I could get for these beans...

Anyhoo, this is likely the last of the jewel weather, sunny and warm. It seemed a good day to break out the camera to get full effect.

Hello there, Miss Thing.

It's tough times for spiders too; there are hardly any bugs out right now.

Baby maters in the dryer. They got canned a bit later.

Voluteer skworshe.

Late season Brassica. We'll see how cold-tolerant it turns out to be.

Seeds for the dryer.

A sample of what I'm harvesting and canning this week. Those are generally smaller examples; most of the big stuff has been canned already.

Drying out cultivars for the seed exchange.

Hello, Russian Sage. I don't cut this back until spring; it's nice in winter.

Sigh. Thumper mocks me. Watermelon that didn't.
T-Dog got to each fruit that made it before they got to be bigger than an apricot.

Tomatillos are nifty, little Chinese Lanters in green.

The camera isn't doing justice to the deep contrast of the purple leaf and white flower puff; it's in deep shade and towers over some hostas nearby. Euph-something, I forget.

Colors of the Hour. It's all about the ROY part of the spectrum right now around here.

But green hasn't given up, nor have I used all my herbs, despite cutting them back rather severely these last couple of weeks.

Pathetic, I know. Not the Year for Melons at all, for me at least. /kicks bucket/

I'll be canning greens soon, now that I have a pressure cooker it's easy enough. I got mine for $20 at the local Craigslist. It works fine and is one of the major brandnames they sell new in stores.

The leaves are falling, like orange droplets of late season sunshine. Honeylocust trees, I think.

The orange mums from last year's more yellow plant. These came up from its seed.

Boo! It's not swampthing, it's drying lemon balm for tea.

Dill and fennel drying with some other stuff.

Winter bean crop moving along nicely.

Basil, sedum, etc.

The winter pea crop, plus I'm givin' Wall St. the finger, or something.

Minestrone and tomato soup, ~85% homegrown.

More homegrown/made soups, using the pressure canner for that bunch.

Spankings, bacon and my BB morning glories will continue until the moral approves. for the Morning Crew

Why now? Why not now? NOW POW! ...sorry, but it's not like they're paying me...

This got all beat up in an early transplant and is just getting around to making its "spring" flower. Good show, old chap!

Not for eating, but will look nice against the snow, assuming the birds don't eat em. Which is probably a poor bet around here...

Purple, my favorite color.

Beauty in decay. I was grooving on the contrast.

More.

Long, late, and reblooming stuff.

Heading off in the P direction of ROY.

Turtle-something.

Toad lillies. Neato.

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