Goodbye to Garden

The killing frost has come

I say goodbye to garden

See you back in spring

© Burke's Garden, 2009

Our Neighbor's Fiery Pistachio Tree

"In the other gardens

And all up the vale,

From the autumn bonfires

See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over

And all the summer flowers,

The red fire blazes,

the grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!

Something bright in all,

Flowers in the summer

Fires in the fall! "

- Robert Louis Stevenson, Autumn Fires

This is our dear neighbor's pistachio tree. It's on fire!

It has the most wonderful fall foliage in the world

and it always does this every year!

We can see the red from our place. It's just too lovely.

Photos © Burke's Garden, 2009.

Do You See What I See?

"Winter is an etching,

spring a watercolor,

summer an oil painting
and autumn a mosaic of them all."

- Stanley Horowitz

Along the tree-bordered property line, across the yellow and green pasture, a red fiery tree is peeking through and screaming, "Look at me! Look at me!".

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Simply Fall

"Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable,

the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown

along the street or road by a gusty wind,

and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Both are warnings of chill days ahead,

fireside and topcoat weather."

- Hal Borland

Oak leaves and acorns on sandy soil.

Red gum leaf among oak leaves and acorns.

The autumn leaves on road pavement.

Leaves on leaves.

Gum leaves and gum balls.

© Burke's Garden, 2009.

November's Leaf & Mushroom

"November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear."

- Sir Walter Scott

Pear tree foliage

Even mushrooms follow the trend.

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Let The Zing Continue

"When the trees their summer splendor

Change to raiment red and gold,
When the summer moon turns mellow,
And the nights are getting cold;
When the squirrels hide their acorns,
And the woodchucks disappear;
Then we know that it is autumn,
Loveliest season of the year."

- Carol L. Riser, Autumn

Let the zing of autumn palette continue.

Our pear tree starts to show fall color

with Blue Butterfly still blooming

on the foreground.

Red and yellow foliage

on the trees by the road.

Dogwood tree's foliage has turned red.

Gum trees by the road.

Yellow foliage and fallen leaves

have allowed more light along

this country road.

© Burke's Garden, 2009.

Crimson Passion Vines Bloom

"In the garden, Autumn is,

indeed the crowning glory of the year,

bringing us the fruition of months of thought

and care, and toil.

And at no reason,

safe perhaps in Daffodil time,

do we get such superb colour effects as

from August to November."

- Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden

Crimson Passion Bloom

Two weeks ago I wondered if my Crimson Passion's flower buds would have time to bloom. My question is now answered.

© Burke's Garden, 2009.

Blue Berries

The zing of the season is finally here, after Thanksgiving (and Black Friday). It begins with this blue berries on trees and wild bushes. The deep blue color against green and yellow leaves adds variation to the orange-yellow fall foliage palette.

The weather starts turning, too. The lovely 70-ish˚F / 21˚C days will soon be over. The forecast for the next 10 days: high around 50-60˚F /10-15˚C and it's raining as we speak.

Blue berries on a wild bush

by the front road.

Blue berries on cypress tree

by the pig pen.

© Burke's Garden, 2009.

Fall Crop

Our pecan crop this year.

White eggplant and a small pumpkin. We feed these to our pet pig and he loved them!

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A View from A Deer Blind

We sat in a deer blind one evening hoping to see some critters while watching the sunset. No critters were to be seen except hawk-chasing crows and a lone crane at the edge of the field.

Sun lit tree line.

It was a little breezy that evening but somehow

the bending limbs of the tree on the left makes it looks like

as if there was a strong wind and the crane with its

neck leaning forward was trying

to wade with the wind on its face.

The same crane with fall foliage on the background.

Note: The pictures were taken with a long lens and very high ISO; the bird was about 150 yards / 150 m from us, at 5.24 pm (after sunset) thus the blurriness on the pictures.

© Burke's Garden, 2009.