The End Comes. Something New Begins...

If you are lucky enough to capture photos of your plants on the first good fall frost,

You might just end up with a great new shot for your blog header...

And I was lucky enough to have this morning happen on a day my husband was able to drop our little ones off to school…

Because a frost like this is strong enough to kill the upper parts of plants for the season and then be gone within moments once the sun comes up over the hill…

And if you miss it - you will have to wait until next year to try to catch it again…

These two images above are the main side hill garden before this beautiful frosty morning…

And here it is after…

This would be the perfect Halloween Spooky Garden!

Pop a few headstones in there and wha-la…

Photographs of bees on blooms will have to wait until spring…

Little critters are fiercely gathering seed…

This little mouse was eating corn left over from our kids fall pumpkin display.

And even though I will remember my 2011 garden as

"the aster yellows depressing year"…

There are little sparks of hope for what the future holds for my garden...

Because little pathways that I've been creating here and there with plants…

Are starting to be explored!

And that delights me to no end and makes me want to get back out there and make a wonderful exploration garden for my little ones…

Wonder what this winter will hold for dreaming and designing out a new garden?