Early leaf color

For Skywatch Friday, though not very dramatic! These photos were from Sept 9 and before. By the time I post this, there should be more!  Also giving these to Garden Blogger's Bloom Day, which was really yesterday!

Perhaps with a magnifying glass you can see this ornamental pear tree's few colors.

And my lush summer forest of maple trees has one single orange leaf showing already!

I will go looking for more color soon!! But I'm sure my northern blogging friends will share some of their beautiful woods.

Today's quote:

Life beckons us as a flicker. A tendril. A corner of darkness. A bell. A spark of the soul. And curiosity propels us to follow.

ROSE ZONETTI

Art in Bloom Garden Tour House No. Three

 Just across the street from the former (No. Two) house was the No. Three home. Up a steep hill we climbed to the back garden, and it was worth it!

Wonderful stone work throughout

From the top of the drive

Great to have labels on a lot of plants, but not all! We kept commenting how there were no weeds! (I imagine a landscaping crew on their knees plucking weeds out)

My friend Helen talked with the artist...

Bill said he was taking photos to hopefully publish in a newspaper (unnamed)

The photographer, Bill, said he'd take our photo on my camera...so I said sure...but we didn't even know the lady in the hat...no problem. He started taking them before we posed, and I think that was best.

On to the next area, in an older part of Black Mountain. Sharing with Living in Black Mountain.

Sharing with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for July.

And check out the Gallery Exhibit of the Floral art for this fund raiser at my blog about art:

 Alchemy of Clay.

Beauty is all around

Wordless Wednesday

Sharing with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and Wordless Wednesday

 Quote for today:

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”

Albert Einstein

Here they come: red blooming tree

  

First opening

Fully opened

I do have more photos of these budding blossoms, but they are stored in iCloud. And somewhere I may have mentioned that Friday the iCloud people (maybe Apple?) said that they couldn't charge me my $0.99 monthly fee for extra storage. That was due to my bank having changed hands, and the new owner bank issuing a new credit/debit card, so the old one won't work any more. And that meant iCloud was frozen for me until I figured out where and how to change the Credit/Debit Card number. It took a good 4 hours of checking different sites about storage of iCloud, Apple, iPhone and so forth...most of which I didn't know my member name, let alone password, so lots of things were being checked. Needless to say, I did get it straightened out, but the iCloud was still not available for me to download any photos here. I can send them from my iPhone to my email, then download them, then post them here. But hey, I have other things to do in life. So if there aren't any new photos posted...maybe I'll just dance for you!

Ah, having looked at, and not understood, the automatic download details in my systems file on my PC, the iCloud photos are sometimes available...and usually not...just stuck on a former date.

Sharing with Garden Blogger's Bloom Day on April 15.

Todays quote:

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. 

-Spanish proverb