I love Fall y'all

 I love Christmas but I want to enjoy every little bit of fall and Thanksgiving especially.

While in the process of wiping down my steps, I noticed how pretty the crepe was so I had to stop for a while and take a walk out. 

 Crepe Myrtle is showing off this year.  This was a couple days ago, most of the leaves have fallen.

Zinnias in back yard still going strong. 

I planted these marigolds back in Spring and they look much more colorful now

French Marigold is my favorite and was in the same seed packet as the yellow above

Leaves still changing but not so much in far back yard but the those awful acorns have fallen and we will use several large Ace bags to get those up in. 

Hard to walk on too.

That Crepe - love it.

Last of the Dahlias picked and brought in

I made some Autumn soup, I used one large butternut squash and two small pumpkins from my sisters garden.  I also add an apple to the soup, spices, cream and pepitas on top.  Had to have a salad to go with it.  Those grape tomatoes I am still picking form my plants in pots. 

Less than two weeks ago we took a ride on Skyline Drive.  Gorgeous as always.  

2,860 feet

Nice day trip and now ready for another.  One thing about where we live in Virginia, we are about two hours from the ocean and two from the mountains or little less, depending on where in the mountains we decide to travel to.  

Bye for now 🍂🌄

Happy first day of November

 Putting away Halloween and back to Autumn with some leaf raking.  The Oaks are dropping their leaves pretty fast.

Halloween we had a few early trick or treaters and loved seeing them dressed up and having fun.

Girls dressed as Steam Punk and Sweet Frog.

Superman was here too.  Ghost had to tilt in for a shot also. 

I love those goggles

In my kitchen are apples for apple butter.  Hopefully next week Pink Lady apples will be ready.  

I picked the last of tomatoes and a few more black eye peas.  There are more of them so I will leave them alone for now.  

Back yard full of acorns, ugh!

You can see the Lavender I chopped back at base of dogwood tree has started spreading again.  I hope it takes up the whole area .  The scent is heavenly.  

I love Autumn