Fall colors

Installation of our new bishop

A very long video may be viewed at:

http://www.stmlky.org/consecration.html

I was not able to insert a link using the tool provided by Google.

I have been unable to watch the entire video because it takes a very long time with stopping and starting and waiting. This is because I do not have higher speed internet service.

The last of the okra and cosmos

Pitiful spinach

How sweet the last few green beans. Here are fall greens, turnip and kale.

Ah, the lovely rain, a very light but steady rain just now. What a blessing. So sad about the East Coast flooding.

What a lovely thing happened today

I have heard of this happening to others, but today was my first time. Hummingbirds have always fussed at me before. Today I was watering the garden and perhaps because it has been so dry, this adorable little bird hesitated at the edge of the spray. I held it steady and decreased the strength of the spray while it fed on a nearby flower. Then it came into the spray, flew around to the other side and came in there, then fully entered by sitting on little sprigs of a Japanese holly under the water. It just took a complete shower. It wiggled and danced and let the water flow all over itself. So very cute. I talked to it softly during this interval which seemed quite long to me, more than a minute, maybe five minutes. Then it hovered overhead before leaving. It was such a wonderful thing.