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Fall Photos
Here are photographs from northern New Mexico this fall. It was one of the prettiest and longest falls I can remember there. We were on the lookout for bear when we went outside. There were native sunflowers and goldenrod. The sunflowers attracted chickadees who were fun to watch as the little acrobats gathered seeds. The oaks, which usually only turn from green to yellow to brown, put on a beautiful display of orange and reds this year too. Deer were fun visitors. We had three large bucks along with younger ones, does, and fawns visit us on a daily basis. When we were outside, they would stop grazing to gaze at us and then return to their business. Wild and planted gooseberries were a nice addition to strawberry-rhubarb pies. They gave a nice zing to whole wheat muffins. I don’t know what the purple flowers were, but I loved them. We planted on our deck–out of deer reach–cherry tomatoes, squash, chiles, rhubarb, chives and other herbs, eggplant and traditional flowers like pansies and petunias. The first frost of fall can overlap the last frost of spring so the growing season is short. This year the frost held off and we got more from our container garden than usual.
Goodbye to fall and Hello to fall!
As this blog post finds its way to your computer, I am on my way from fall in the mountains of northern New Mexico at 7,000 feet to fall in Oklahoma at 1,200 feet. We have had our first hard freeze and our first snowfall of the season (with no real accumulation). It’s time to transition.
Fall was beautiful this year with lots of blazing yellow. Now I’m hoping to see fall again in Oklahoma. Last year there were beautiful yellows, reds, and oranges, but strong winds blew them away in just a few days’ time.
I am sharing a few pictures from end of summer and fall in a climate that never got hot this year.
- Ammo in the middle of New Mexico sunflowers that grow abundantly here.
- A tiny berry from a black currant bush that grows wild on our property. It is the first time the bushes have produced fruit in 20 years. Time intensive to collect and remove the ends, but they were fun to eat added into a rhubarb/apple pie.
- Worth the walk up the hill to get a good view of the Brazos Cliffs which are the tallest in New Mexico.
- New Mexico sunflowers that didn’t get planted in the pot until the first of August, and they bloomed before the frost.
- Lovely fall colors.
- Lucy is a nosy chiweenie. This was a little scary because these wildflowers attract wasps.
- A giant sunflower in another pot on the deck. I held my breath until it bloomed! The last frost of the winter and the first frost of the fall can overlap in this area; that can make for a really short growing season.
- Sunrise!
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