A recent sunrise with red sky and ship.
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Even when the Icelandic Sheepdog girls can't follow me, they follow me. Is it love or is the herding instinct that strong. Three generations here - Totty, Kria, Kit.
Dahlias
Dahlias, Phlox
Dahlia, Langhammar's Autumn Orange Daylily
Jim Langhammar's Autumn Orange Daylily
Dahlias, Eupatorium coelestinum
Hardy Ageratum (Eupatorium coelestinum)
Among the many varieties of Colchicums there are at least six in my garden. They start flowering in mid-September and slowly the different kinds come into bloom the flowers lasting until mid to late November. Of course I am fond of the winter hardy mums which are hard to find; the more tender mums are available everywhere at this tine of the year but they usually fail to survive winters here. However, I love the Colchicums because the unexpected arrival of the flowers long after their spring and early summer leaves have disappeared always are a pleasant surprise. I sometimes describe them as winter hardy Amaryllis - even though they are not related to them. Everyone knows that Amaryllis leaves produce the energy necessary to produce their huge flowers weeks or even months after the leaves have disappeared.
The photos below show three earlier flowering kinds of Colchicums.
Colchicum autumnale album
Colchicum autumnale album
Colchicum
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Because of the cyclic rising and falling water levels of Lake Huron, my beach had disappeared for two years. The water level has been up to the vegetation. Now it's receding once again and the beach is slowly reappearing. Fossils, including many Petosky Stones, will begin to reappear after storms. I had to abandon my beach well which carried water from the well all the way up the bluff to my pole barn (aka Sans Souci) and instead connect the city water I get in my house to the pole barn. There's always someting unexpected happening, eh?
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