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Sometimes things persist unexpectedly. Here's last year's kale, left to overwinter in the garden, coming back for spring. 🌱

One daisy is blooming, bright against the fallen leaves. 🌱

Garden beds now cleaned up for the winter and lightly mulched with fallen leaves. U-posts also capped to make it less likely that my daughter, whose disability includes balance problems, will trip and impale herself on one. No impalements on my watch. 🌱

A warm, bright fall morning. Tomorrow for Halloween, the rain will come in bringing the year's first hard freeze behind it.

The Yuletide camellia is heavy with buds and beginning to bloom. A different kind of fall color. 🌱

This small white aster is, I think, the plant called Small White Aster. It is doing a good job of being a small white aster. Not sure whether it's a wildflower or got here intentionally, but it's pretty and the bees like it. 🌱

This reblooming azalea was buried too deep in weeds to flower in the spring, but now it's taking advantage of its autumn second chance. 🌱

Most of the garden plants are done blooming, but the mums are going strong. 🌱

So many rocks in this bed! Enormous rocks. Rocks all the way down. But Spiky here (an osmanthus/false holly) now has a home. 🌱

Soil sample from the raised beds ready to take to the county ag extension office to find out whether I need to amend in the spring. This month I'm planning to weed the beds, pull out last year's volunteer tomato plants, and cover the beds with leaf mulch for the winter. 🌱

The muscadine grapevine, which was pruned back haphazardly right before we moved in and produced all of one grape this summer.

At least I've got all winter to figure out how I'm supposed to prune it next February. Muscadine grapes are tasty, and I have hope for this vine yet. 🌱

This praying mantis is doing a good job of resembling a twig. If twigs went for strolls. #insects

My project for this fall: clean up the four gorgeous raised beds that came with the house, to get them ready for spring planting. Features colorful pinwheels for the amusement of the many (completely untroubled) rabbits and squirrels. 🌱

Good morning, fish. Good morning, trees. (The fish are suspicious of me because I am skimming-the-pond-with-a-net lady, not food-lady. The trees seem unbothered by me so far.)

Tiny rosebush is trying, despite being in the shade of an overgrown privet bush. The pruning saw is coming for you, privet. 🌱

The first really cool weather of fall has arrived, and the fig tree is shedding its leaves. Looking forward to the fall color coming out with several nights in the 40s (F) on the way. 🌱

Sekhmet thinks she is invisible. Nobody tell her.