Birds and Blooms...

It's really beginning to feel like fall these days. We've had some dark dreary days this week with little sunshine. The temps are slowly dropping and the nights are getting downright chilly. When I went for my walk last night after supper, it took quite a few minutes of brisk walking to get rid of the shivers. I have been slowly dismantling the vegetable garden, all that remains in the ground now are a few beets. I dug my gladiola bulbs this week, and will soon be cutting down all my perennial beds. It seems like just yesterday that the birds were enjoying my flowers. They especially seem to





like the Echinacea (purple coneflower) for both the blooms and now the seedheads. I can understand that.. it's one of my favourites too, especially for photography. Below are a few of my fav shots from this summer... most taken in my own backyard, and a few taken in the wonderful Ingraham garden at Kings Landing.

 And lastly, one of my favourite shots of all time of a little feathered friend in the garden....

 

I hope you have had the pleasure of many visits from our feathered friends this summer in your garden or backyard.

Peace,

Linda

"To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting with bugs and worms and succulent berries." ~ Anne Raver