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| Scene from Dad's HO scale layout |
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| Butternut, mashed potato, hubbard, kabocha, buttercup ... delicious. |
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| Bittersweet. When I was in kindergarten, I went as a witch for Halloween & my mother decorated the brim of my hat with bittersweet. |
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| Grasshopper busy being very, very still. |
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| Rainy day asters |
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| Beautiful purple and yellow cauliflower for sale at the farmers market. |
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| Monarch butterfly enjoying the last of the summer zinnias. |
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| Last of the summer zinnias. |
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| An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail enjoys a thistle somewhere in Eastern North Carolina |
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| Hesperia comma, the common branded skipper, enjoying a thistle. |
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| So close to being ours. |
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| There's beauty in lichen colonies on an old fence rail. |
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Love the toothed leaves and long-lasting, teasel-like blossoms of the sea holly.
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| Exuberant zinnia, a symbol of endurance. |
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White cosmos blooming in the dill and fennel bed.
Like those two herbs, cosmos also attract pollinators. |
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| Some kind of dahlia, I think. |
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| Wee fluffy doggo I met at the farmers market. |
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| Soft, airy, and always elegant Queen Anne's lace. |
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| Happy yellow Tickseed (Coreopsis) blooming in the afternoon shade. |
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Always cheerful black-eyed Susan, a low-care plant
beneficial to bees, butterflies, and birds |
