December garden

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Tina

November garden

 

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Tina

A foggy Sunday morning

Driving home

Today's sunrise

as I saw it from the kitchen window.

Tuesday morning sky

After lots of clouds, rain and a cold wind it is going to be a lot warmer with temps up over 20 degrees Celcius tomorrow.

The other side of fall

...the one with the beautiful colors

And in the afternoon...

There's no bad weather, just bad clothing...

Have a nice Sunday

Weatherforecast talked about lots of clouds for today. And rain. So I thought I'd take the chance of taking an early sunny picture...

October garden

 

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Tina

Have a great week

Only one more day of getting up early, then we'll be off work for two weeks and a half :)
Can you see the green shimmer above Flavie's head? That's the winter wheat already poking out of the ground.

Saturday after-nap walk

It had rained last night but today the sun is back. Yet there is such a chill in the air that you can definitely tell that autumn has arrived.

Hot Air Balloons

There's going to be some championship in the neighbour town over the weekend. Women's European Championship if I remember it right.

Impressions from our walk around noon

It is very fall-ish today but we stayed dry...

September is here

and with it the meteorological autumn begins. It rained last night and the temperatures dropped to 13 degrees Celsius. And the air smells and feels like fall. Especially when you go on the doggie morning walk in shorts and barefoot. Unbelievable that not yet two weeks ago we had 38 degrees and could hardly sleep at night because it was still so hot.
A faint rainbow after the rain.

(sent from my phone)

November garden

Late but just to complete the year:

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Another dog walk

Remember the post about the green sunday walk I wrote back in August? Well here are some actual pictures of that part of my neck of the woods.

 The beginning change to fall is definitely visible!

 The clouds were looking special.

 This is still the same field of leek than in the old post ;-)

And as usual with me: girls in front looking out for grashoppers and mice, boy one step behind.

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 Tina

More October garden pictures

It is mid october and everything is still so green! Lots of colour, too. The fall perenniels are in full bloom, the roses are doing great, the white buddleja has a second high, the blackeyed susan has hidden the insect hotel post nicely, and the clematis fruit are just amazing.

This past week we had some nice weather with cold nights under a clear sky (down to 4°C in the morning) and nice sunny days, warm in the sun but already cool in the shade. Had my lunch today on the back patio, sitting there in jeans and just a t-shirt. Two more days like this are forecast!

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Tina

Edit: the clematis is Clematis tangutica, or mongolian clematis. You can see them in flower here, it's a last year's post.

October garden

I am sorry for not blogging for so long!
Is there still someone out there waiting for some news from my neck of the woods? (Well, I actually know of one person who definitely is as I was told “You haven’t written anything on your blog for over a month now - I am always SO disappointed when I check your blog and don’t find anything new” :-) )

Definitely need to get back my blogging mojo as well as the ones for blog reading, for taking pictures, for knitting, for crochet, for surfing the internet…

Will have two weeks off work soon and hope there will be some change to the better here then when I have some more spare time and am not sitting in front of the screen nearly all day long.
And we plan for at least one trip into the woods depending on Dingo's actual fitness, and if I don’t forget the camera I might be able to show you some nice fall pictures.

The weather in September was beautiful, warm, sunny days and cool nights.
So here is my first-of-the-month-garden-picture with some delay:

But for a week or so it is true fall weather, cool, wet, windy and somewhat unfriendly in general, but we just have to get used to it again. And then a nice hot cup of tea is so nice after a walk :-)

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Tina

Some pictures of today's walk

After a rainy august we can feel the transition to fall now...

A flock of parakeets:

Doggies are fine! (Can you find the difference to their last picture? ;-))

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Tina