Good morning, and the change is here. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging.
Over the past week, Denver has completed the turn into autumnal weather.
We had a cool front come through, giving us four days of seasonal highs in the upper 60s and low 70s, and overnight lows dipping down to the 40s.
And rain. Blessed, blessed rain off and on over those four days, totaling over 2".
The grass seed has sprouted in the lawn patch (and isn't baby grass just the cutest stuff?).
The trees are changing color.
And then there's that scent; that certain autumn perfume in the air. I don't know how to describe it — I'd say "earthy", but the scent of spring is earthy, too and totally different. Tangy doesn't quite get it either.
So I'll just stick with the scent of autumn.
I was going to wax philosophical this morning on the nature of perception and change, but I'm experiencing "technical difficulties" — I spilled a bit of coffee on my laptop keyboard this morning and it's doing very weird things — hit the letter p, and get ;op]; typing the number 3 gets 2323 — and offer to save the document.
So I'm at the desktop computer I rarely use anymore, and I'll just post a series of photos I took late yesterday afternoon.
That's what's happening here. What's going on in your gardens?