Scanner art by Craig Cramer, gardening & more
A couple of fare-to-middlin’ frosts. It’s starting to feel like fall, what with moving pots to shelter and bulb- and garlic planting.
Water garden in morning sun with mist rising off beaver pond.
The (mostly) grass border along the north edge of the veggie garden.
Wish I remembered the cultivar on this grass.
Frosted phlomis seedheads.
Frost on dahlia.
My favorite mixed container this year. Looks better now that I pulled it out of the weeds.
And the obligatory ridge at sunrise.
This Boston-based duo is my favorite punk cabaret band. (Well, there aren’t many others, far as I know.) Night Reconnaissance (language warning) is not my favorite track from them. But it is a song about stealing lawn ornaments.
For beginners, best to check out their session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic before working up to their concert performances. (War Pigs is a favorite.) Find more videos on their very cool website.
Anemones continue to be my favorite fall flower. These are from the ‘secret garden’ tucked into a courtyard near the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory on the south side of the Plant Science building at Cornell. Click images larger views.
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