Buds to bloom.....

An interesting look of some buds that may make it through the freeze.  Mums are tough and I may throw an old towel over them to get them through one bad night.

I hate getting older and having to make myself do stuff.  I kept putting this off but late Sunday evening I went out with this crockery bowl and some scissors and collected seed. I will try to bag them by colors.  This photo shows the beginning of the cutting and I took many more photos of bowls of flowers while I kept filling the bowl .

 

Yes I am milking the petunia shots for all they are worth.  It's just that they are the last of what is living and I have to keep shooting the good compositions.  I had to water these plants that are in a pot as they were really dry.  

I am studying with students the history of the Buddhism religion today.  It is interesting to see where these religions start. World History, American History, and other related subjects I will visit today. 

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A wooly worm with a stripe......

I don't know the accuracy of the wooly worm but some people believe the stripe is an indication of  future winter conditions.  I don't know which that it is, whether it is a hard winter, or maybe it is an easy winter. Oh yes, I did have to look up the spelling for this fuzzy insect.  The neighbor's seem to have the worms with all cream coloring, no stripe.

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Friday

I had not seen this guy most of the summer as the red twig had grown so large that he was covered with leaves.  I recently trimmed it back and stood him back up and he now is visible with mums starting to bloom all a round him.

My river birch tree is really showing off with it's yellow color.  The bark is always neat to view after the leaves are all gone. I trim this tree around the bottom of it to keep from having to walk into it's branches, they hitting me in the face and it just doesn't help.  If I trim, the next level of branches, the ones that are above them start to hang down then.  I guess it just spreads out downward no matter how much it is trimmed.

My zinnia's are being mighty warriors as the wind and the bugs continue to attack them.  They seem to decay gracefully and somewhat in a nice sort of way.  I will need to pick seed soon before the next big rain washes them off.

Friday is here and I am in the classroom today.  It is their homecoming week and tonight is the big game.  The middle school is a little crazy with all the festivities but maybe that the parade was yesterday and the day is suppose to be pretty quiet all day except for the pep rally at the end of the day, that they may be too tired to be bad.

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