As I noted in an earlier post, it’s hard for me to stay inside and write this blog when the weather is nice. However, I am making myself rest after working outside yesterday and then raking gravel back in the road this morning. (A neighbor scraped it with her tractor blade yesterday, but it needed to be “touched up” with the rake.)
It’s gorgeous outside right now—it’s about 80 degrees and sunny with a nice breeze from the west. A few leaves have begun to fall, and late summer/early autumn flowers are blooming. I’ll be posting more later, but here are a few. Clockwise from top left: Passionflower aka Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), Wild Ageratum (Eupatorium coelestinum), Carolina Elephant’s Foot (Elephantopus carolinianus), and Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia) aka yellow ironweed with New York Ironweed aka Tall Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis)
The butterflies are still plentiful. Some of them may be migrating, but these were busy creating the next generation. (I think these are Gulf Fritillaries (Agraulis vanillae)).
The fawns continue to grow, as do Buttons’s antlers.
French Broad Hollow Ramble 