I just took a look at the National Weather Center site. How long has it been since the USA warning map has been so clear across the entire country? Beautiful day in the East.

In the early morning light the garden looks magical now. The dew-covered webs of the many Golden Orb spiders sparkle like diamonds, and the Cape-and-Doily spiders have frosted all the boxwood with their intriguing webs.

In spite of a good selection of plants, I did not see nearly as many butterflies this year, but I had a somewhat larger variety of them. By mid-fall the bronze fennel usually have generous populations of Swallowtail catterpillars on them. This year I have only seen a few. We caught remnants from all of the hurricanes, and so had a series of weeks with very heavy rain. I wonder if eggs got washed off the fennel?

Who has had first frost?

Janie