afternoon in the garden

I took these pics on Sunday before the the fall rains began...

Primping on the fence:



My first and favourite garden chandelier:



The woodpecker who will ignore anyone and everything if the peanuts are good enough:

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The side garden by the raspberries:



The front pond. Take note: the pretty pinky-purple flowers are volunteer weeds. There's lots of them around the neighborhood this year. The bees have no interest in them. If you look closely you can see a fish or two:



Now it's dark when I have to get up in the morning (that always seem unnatural, if you ask me), it's cooler and rainy (which I quite enjoy) and life is extraordinarily tumultuous and hectic (not my cup of tea, but inevitable now and then).

This too shall pass.