Summer seems to have ended abruptly though I hope we’ll still get that Indian Summer we so enjoy here.
This week the evening news warned of a frost ‘in the outlying areas” and we’re certainly outlying, so I went out to the garden and cut a few of the dahlia’s to take to my aunt.
And because I couldn’t bear the thought of all the beautiful flowers brown with frost so soon.
We didn’t get the frost, but I’m still glad I brought some of the blooms inside.
They’re so beautiful.
PS: Scott has another photographic assignment due 9/28. The challenge is to photograph something competitive. I’ll be thinking about this one. You can too! There’s still lots of time!
Change Is Hard 
September 17, 2011 at 6:13 am
We had the warning, but no frost too.
Dahlia’s are so cheerful and colorful. I’m sure your Aunt will love them.
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September 17, 2011 at 6:19 am
Gorgeous flowers with such vivid colors!
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September 17, 2011 at 7:28 am
The flowers are beautiful.
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September 17, 2011 at 7:34 am
We have the abruptly cool temperatures too – luckily no frost warning yet: I still have tomatoes and hot peppers to pick!
Your dahlias are lovely. I love them very much, but have always been to lazy to plant the full-sized ones since you have to dig them up for them to survive the winter. I plant the mini-annual ones in containers just so I can have something similar, but the big ones are just gorgeous.
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September 17, 2011 at 8:41 am
Your dahlias are gorgeous! We saw some beautiful ones at the Farmers’ Market in Portland Monday. I’ve never planted them because, like Karma, I’m too lazy to dig them in the fall. I do have a canna and a Rex Begonia in pots just barely beginning to bloom. Perhaps we’ll have some warm days and nights above that 32 mark we’ve hit the past two nights so they can complete their blossoming for this year. I can hope.
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September 17, 2011 at 10:16 am
You think I dig them up each fall? Oh no dear friends…I just buy new bulbs in the spring! LOL
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September 17, 2011 at 11:42 am
what gorgeous flowers – hey if you entered those in a flower show – it would be something competitive 🙂
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September 17, 2011 at 7:27 pm
I have fingers crossed for an Indian summer here, too. I dread the cold. Maybe I need to move further south. (Beautiful, beautiful pictures, btw!)
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September 18, 2011 at 9:28 am
Such purty flowers!! My fresh flowers all come from Whole Foods.
Frost was on the news but not nipping at our toes.
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September 18, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Beautiful flowers and nice shots, too.
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September 20, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Those are just gorgeous! It’s getting cool here too, I don’t know if we’ve had frost yet, but leaves are starting to change here and there, so I’m sure if it hasn’t happened, it’s not too far in the future.
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