Not from this year’s garden, but it’s always good to see a rose in the rain, isn’t it?

Full blown Peace rose, with raindrops

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The Pacific Northwest has many evergreens but also enough deciduous trees for a beautiful fall season. This was across from my house.

Red leaves and evergreens in November fog in the Seattle area

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Fall foliage is like a flower. So beautiful, and over so soon.

Heart-shaped leaf in the autumn rain

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A Seattle band with a big band sound, the Kings of Swing, plays at a senior center in Kent, WA every month for a practice venue. Great dance music!

Dancers enjoy the big band sound of the Seattle Kings of Swing

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My sister Jo Sanders is traveling in India and Bhutan. This is one of her photos. If you enjoy armchair travel, she is an extraordinary writer, not a bad photographer at all, and you are welcome to read her fascinating blog.

“On the drive from Thimphu [Bhutan] this morning we went over a mountain pass at over 10,000 feet.”

The weather has gotten too cold for this brugmansia (Angel’s Trumpet) plant to stay on the patio, so into the living room it has come until the warm weather returns. Every night the scent perfumes the entire house.

Golden yellow-orange blossoms of brugmansia or Angel’s Trumpet blooming indoors

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Here’s a closeup of the flower in the post below. I really love this image and I am calling it my Best Post of the Week.

Curving petals of a yellow dahlia flower

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I recently gave away some extra garden plants I had, and a neighbor who picked some up brought a bouquet of dahlias from her garden as a thank you. I have heard of dahlias called dinner-plate size, but thought that was poetic license. This is for real. Here is her bouquet on my kitchen table, with a regular box of tissues there for scale.

Bouquet of lemon yellow dahlias, each flower about ten inches across

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I think this is a dogwood, but not sure. In any case, this was taken before today’s big wind. Ah, the fleeting beauty of autumn leaves.

Red leaves on a tree in autumn

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The warm fall has created some interesting garden anomalies. Here’s a rain-soaked October forsythia blossom!

A single fall bloom of forsythia, in the rain

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