How Does Your Garden Grow?

The grackles arrived in a huge flock. There must have been 3 dozen birds. They landed together and then lifted off together, called a murmuration. Just the movement of me readying the camera and moving towards the windows caused them to rise en masse. I had a hard time capturing them. You can see one in flight at the very top of the photograph and a few dark spots in the trees. The grackles usually arrive in October. Ink loved watching the grackles. Dozens of snacks pecking at the lawn.

The cardinal, mourning doves, and squirrel stopped by for an afternoon snack.

The squirrel took a drink of water from the birdbath.

A very nice picture of Chocolate eating his greens.

Garter snake image courtesy of Pexels.com

As I was turning on the garden hose to fill the birdbath, I startled a harmless, garter snake. He startled me, too. He slithered under the snowball bushes in the front yard. I didn't have my camera so couldn't capture his image. Not that I'd be able to as the garter snakes are shy and fast. A garter snake used to live by the back door before the sunroom was added. The girlies called him Mr. Scalely.

I'm disappointed the morning glories and moonflowers never bloomed. The plants in the bucket don't look too good. Some of the leaves have a yellow mottling.

The morning glory vines in Ink's garden look better, but still no blooms. 

Someone knocked over one of the milkweed plants.

The sunflower petals have mysteriously disappeared. There are no petals on the ground.

Late Summer allergy season is in full bloom. Goldenrod growing with the honey suckle vine cops the blame.

The real culprit is ragweed. I've been diffusing allergy relief essential oils to help with our symptoms.

How does your garden grow?