This week I did a Second Look in the morning--not my typical time because I'm really not a morning person. However I decided it was time to try a different perspective on things in honor of the official beginning of Fall. When first I went out, the air was cool and the sun was up but there was still fog in the valleys and dew on the grass. The birds were fairly quiet except for the cawing of some noisy crows and the drumming of a persistent woodpecker. As the sun rose higher in the sky, these were joined by more melodious sounds of other birds. The bees and other insects appeared to be waiting for the day to warm up before they began their activity because I saw very few of them compared to later in the day. The plants are continuing to change as some leaves are turning red while others are going straight to brown. However, there still bits of color from summer here and there.
Here are a few things I was this week
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| Dew covered most things including this balloon flower. |
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| Fungus on rotting stump. |
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| Honeysuckle berries. The birds love these, but they can be poisonous for humans. |
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| A few of the coreopsis are still blooming, but most are turning to seed. |
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| Roxanne geranium |
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| At first I thought the inchworm on this coneflower was a stick, but it appears that it was just still "sleeping." |
