The fantail pigeon population has grown a great deal, with more births than deaths this summer. I will have to advertise some for sale very soon:
It takes many hours to mow the whole lawn and I am hoping this was the last mowing of the year. I parked the mower and came in for lunch and a nap before I resumed the job:
Japanese Knotweed may be one of the worst of all invasive species, but it is kind of pretty this time of year nonetheless:
And the sunflowers are glorious:
The tree on the north side of the house is producing Golden Delicious apples:
On the south side of the house, my dwarf Red Delicious produced - wait a minute, these are not Red Delicious apples! It turned out that a neighboring, taller tree had sent out a long branch which covered the dwarf tree:
The Rugosa roses are still blooming, but at this time of year, they have other colors to offer also:
Plantain-Leaved Sedge, also known as Seersucker Sedge has grown by the barn door for as long as I've been here, but I just learned what it was:
If you wondered why it is sometimes called Seersucker Sedge, it is because the leaves are puckered/gathered, like seersucker fabric:
New York Asters began to bloom:
Every day I kept getting more and more sunflowers - and this despite the many I've cut for flower arrangements:
