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Summer weather yesterday and today

The glow out my bedroom window attracts my eye.

We’ll have our first freeze tonight or at least this week.

My beautiful annuals have bloomed their ever-loving hearts out this prolonged autumn. The freeze will kill them all.

Au revoir my lovelies. I’m grateful for you hard work and humble beauty.

How do you catch a moonbeam in your hand? How do you catch the glow of autumn with your camera?

You can’t really capture either, but I keep on trying!

Many years ago, on my first trip to Giverny to see Monet’s garden, I discovered the art of espaliering. I planted this apple tree many years ago on the side of my garage, and although it hasn’t been pruned perfectly over the years by a variety of caretakers, it is still growing strong.

This year it produced 3 apples. I don’t grow the tree for its fruit, but for the opportunity to harness nature (in very a small way). The feisty squirrels who make my garden their home have robbed me of the the other 2 apples, but yesterday I plucked the remaining one you see here.

Each of the 4 major branches of this tree are of a different apple variety. It is a true “specimen” tree!

A picture is so perfect it must be shared immediately. This is one!

And I buy them whenever I have a good chance, even knowing they will be difficult to transport home.

But, look at the payoff!

Last fall I purchased a small group of ceramics in Orvieto, one of my favorite places to pick up unusual items. I loved this flower vase but knew it would be difficult to fill attractively because of the Renaissance colors