I've Brought Summer

Hi there! Remember me?

Frank and I have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride while house hunting, these past several weeks. We thought we found our beautiful waterfront home, but the inspection was done last week and it revealed a few surprises that we weren't willing to accept.

So the search continues and so will my infrequent blog visits. Posts of the Week will continue to be on hold for the time being. I apologise for that.

I will try to get a few posts scheduled though, now that I have uploaded, sorted through and readied several dozen photos taken over the end of the summer and throughout September and October.

The following images are from the end of August.



One of the few good things about summer coming to an end and the days getting shorter, is that you don't have to be awake at a ridiculous hour to see a sunrise. Benny and I experienced this one together while on our morning walk.





Winged insects seem to be particularly busy when the fall flowers begin to bloom.





Let's get up close and personal with this buzzing beauty.






Another late-summer flower is the black-eyed Susan. There's a lovely patch of them near Frank's place.






Why not get up close and personal with this blossom, too? Why not, indeed!






Berries ripen just in time to greet the migrating birds as they return to, or pass through these parts.






I'm sure that these will attract a few takers. I was tempted by them, myself.






A tiny damselfly posed nicely for me in the late-day sunlight. Thankfully, it was unaware of Benny's prancing just a few steps away.






And another wee one. The blade of grass might give you some idea of just how little it is.






There isn't a much nicer way to end the day than with clear skies and a near-full summer moon shining from above.


More coming up soon.

Time for a P Break

Today's post was inspired, in part by Sue at Photowannabe.

Hers is one of the first blogs I started following in my early days of posting.

If you've been acquainted with my blog for any period of time, you know that I don't like to participate in memes or to commit to any group blogging endeavors. Of course, this doesn't mean that I don't enjoy seeing what others have to post about when they do.

Every Wednesday, for as long as I've known Sue, she has rotated her way through the alphabet twice a year, posting her lovely photos on ABC Wednesday. She's wending her way toward the end of the alphabet once again but will soon start anew for another 26 weeks. It's always a kick to she how she finds unique ways to use that week's letter to describe what you see in her lovely photography.

Please stop by her place and have a look. There's so much more about Sue to love beyond her photography. She and her husband frequently travel to parts of the world in need, and help restore, build and maintain communities for those far less fortunate than us. This lady is a true gem.

Sue, this one's for you.

These little workers PETRIFY some PEOPLE - understandably so, in some cases. This bee is just too PREOCCUPIED with PROBING the inside of this PASTEL, PURPLE flower.

PRETTY in PINK. These blossoms have long PASSED having reached PERFECTION in the PREVIOUS month of May. Still, their PERFUME lingers on - at least in my mind.

A POT of PURPLE PANSIES PRESENTED to me by my PENULTIMATE son (otherwise known as my first born) for Mother's Day.

A POPPY head (not to be confused with POOPY HEAD), PRIOR to POPPING. It sits in a PATCH amid other PLANTS where I PHOTOGRAPHED it from Frank's back PORCH.

Also growing in Frank's back yard - brilliant PINK PEONIES. There had been some recent PRECIPITATION and the droplets did their PART to PRETTIFY the PETALS.

These PRETTY PURPLE and white flowers are wild PHLOX (I PRESUME) and they grow quite PROFUSELY at this time of the year. They're PRESENT alongside the creek and seem to do well in PARTIAL shade.
Edited to add that a lovely lady named Gayle has sent me an email kindly explaining that these flowers are actually called Dame's Rocket - and is also known by many other names (dame’s rocket,damask violet, dame’s violet, dames-wort, dame’s gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen’s gilliflower, rogue’s gilliflower, summer lilac,sweet rocket, mother-of-the-evening and winter gillyflower). Thank you so much, Gayle. I really had no idea and so I presumed incorrectly. I so appreciate you letting me know.

Here's another PICTURE of PHLOX. This one is not PROTECTED by shade and does just as beautifully as those in the PREVIOUS PHOTO.

PRECIOUS PINK blossoms PLAYFULLY adorn the bushes in the PARK where I walk most often. They POPPED out long after the other flowering trees were done. Good PLANNING on their PART.

One of my neighbours PLANTS lovely PERENNIALS in her garden and this PRETTY PURPLE allium is among them. You might not be able to see that it is shaped like a globe because I got up close and PERSONAL with its PETALS in this PARTICULAR macro PHOTO.

I PREFER this old, dead tree over many in my local PARK. It stands by the POND PROVIDING a PLACE for bugs to exist and for birds to PARTAKE in said bugs. It also PRESENTS itself very nicely against a PURPLE and PINK sky. This tree always allows me to PEEK at it from different angles. It seems to have something new for me to PERCEIVE from its features every time I see it. Can you PERCHANCE PICK out the little smiling face near the top of the tree?

Thanks for allowing me to PLAY with the letter P in this way, and thanks especially to Sue at PHOTOWANNABE for inadvertently PROMPTING this POST.