What happened to the pumpkin

Remember the big orange surprise that Socks found in the yard?

Did you guess what was going to happen to it?

Tonight I cut the top off
and scooped out the insides.

Granddad saved the seeds.

The outside was so tough and the shell so thick that it took a strong man to make the first cuts.

Granddad supervised the process. Socks wasn't sure about it.Slowly a face began to appear.

It took a long time to cut it.
I trimmed up the teeth. They are pretty sharp.
The big orange pumpkin turned into a jolly looking Jack-o-lantern.
Until dark.

Then it looked a little spooky.

Happy Halloween!

Getting Colder

This morning the grass crunched under my feet. There was frost outlining everything. And I saw the very first icicle of the year.

Now it's Fall

Summer is over today.

Today is the very first day of Fall. What do you think we'll see in Fall?

Flowers

I planted lots of flowers in pots this year. I put them out in the sun by the pool. All summer I have been taking care of them and they have been blooming. Now they look tired.

It's okay, because now there are some bright flowers blooming that I didn't plant and didn't take care of and those flowers look wonderful.
The goldenrod is brilliant yellow.
The Autumn clematis looks like snow covering the hedge.
The butterflies love the purple iron weed.
And the bees love this fuzzy white weed.
What a nice thing, to have flowers just grow up by themselves.