One more upheaval now done. The attic boxes and contents are ship-shape and the Salvation Army will smile when I drive up. Enough.

Though warm days keep rolling back in, it still is fall. Marge pulled the flora out of the pool exposing the aquatic animals to view though the fish mainly stay at the bottom now. One of the frogs was easily visible. Usually, I only hear the plop as he dives back in and out of sight under the plant life...

Frog friend clinging to pond edge.

Marge assembled her leaf netting for the pond and together we moved it into its place for the winter.

One of the colder, gloomy days I was inspired to make bread again...

All ingredients in one bowl, add 19 hours.

By the time the second rising and the baking were complete, it was back to summer temps outside.

This recipe is sort of amazing. Hard to believe it's so easy. Figuring out if I'll be around at the 19th through 23rd hour is the main concern. Alton Brown dreamed this one up... Knead Not Sourdough on the Food Network.

Jeanenne and Larry took a couple of days to go to Miramar Beach and Jeanenne got out her watercolors and made some art that she shared with me...

These are making me smile all over again. It's so much fun thinking about and seeing what Jeanenne has been doing with watercolors!

Saturday, Marge and I took the bus to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. It sits on 250 acres...

...and the Chihuly Exhibit was still up.

We walked in the woods, ate tacos from a food truck, saw wonderful trees and growing things, and still didn't see it all.

Someone forgot their hat. Must have been playing outside somewhere.

It got so warm I changed into a tee-shirt I bought in the gift shop.

A creek runs through the property...










The rose garden at the end of the season didn't completely disappoint. We found this...

"'Julia Child'. Personally selected by Julia Child for its buttery yellow color..."

And Sandy just sent this lovely view from Missouri...