Fall Ramblings. #4

Hello everyone! Nice to see you all here once again. I always enjoy when you stop by for a visit. I know that I have not been out visiting your blogs much lately, I do apologize for that. I have been dealing with health issues again, one that is an ongoing problem and a couple of others that are somewhat new. One especially is new to me and my new doctor was able to find the problem quickly and put me on some pills to help with that.

It might take some time though, apparently, perhaps until the end of the year. I’m hoping it will correct itself sooner than that, however, since it has really been wearing me out. That is why my posts have not been very regular either. Some days it is just too hard to do anything, even write, though I do enjoy writing a great deal. I am not writing this to complain about my health either, just wanted to let you know why I’m so irregular with writing and reading.

These are Daisy Fleabane, sort of miniature daisies.

Well, enough about that. It is a beautiful, sunny and warm day. The high for today is supposed to be 80F (26C), with a strong south wind. We may even set a new record for temperature today. I was reading on one of our weather sites recently, that if we get a rainy summer, such as we had this year, then the fall colors are not as good. I’m not sure about that one, but guess we will see if that is true.

This is Meadowsweet, a mid to late summer wildflower. They are actually more of a shrub.

I have noticed quite a number of trees that have started to turn yellow, but then their leaves start dropping off before they hit that really nice bright color. So, maybe there is something to that rainy summer idea. There was a flock of small birds out here this morning, mostly it was Yellow-Rumped (Myrtle) Warblers and Pine Warblers.

They are the last of the warbler species to leave each year, and normally the first to arrive in spring. It sounded like there were Brown Creepers and Ruby-Crowned Kinglets in the flock as well. I haven’t seen any sparrows around lately, but that is likely due to the fact no one in our neighborhood is feeding birds. At least, not yet. People around here generally don’t want to start feeding this early since it could attract bears.

This is the Black-Eyed Susan, one of our late summer flowers.

There haven’t been many bear reports this fall, but they will show up more as the weather changes to cooler temps next week. We had our monthly fire alarm testing today. Muffin doesn’t run and hide anymore, though she does wake up until it is over.

Pearly Everlasting, another mid to late summer wildflower. I hope you have enjoyed the wildflowers shared today.

We were told that the outside of our windows would be washed today as well. I haven’t seen any action on that yet however. Maybe things got changed. They don’t usually tell us when things suddenly get changed like that. We are supposed to guess. Oh well, minor detail. I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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