I love fall..

Ever since I was a child growing up on the Oregon coast, I've always loved fall. The cool crisp air, the leaves changing colors, pumpkins, fuzzy catapilars, apple cider, the whole deal. I missed it living in Texas for 14 years where the tree leaves would generally just turn brown and fall off in February.

Yesterday we went out to a local farm with friends. Apparently this farm's  "harvest festival" has gotten very commericialized over the years, but I still enjoyed it. Watched an apple cider juicing demo, petted the farm animals, saw the pumkin patch, ate caramel kettle corn, cruised through a hay and corn maze and wandered around the country store. They still had fresh walla walla sweet onions at 59 cents a pound, and tons and tons of decorative gourds and squash.

Today I spent about 5 hours working in the yard.  We were lucky to have a whole day without rain so I took full advantage of it. It has however been raining now for the last 3 weeks or more, so the soil is much easier to move around and I managed to locate all of my spring bulbs that flowered this year (various daffodils including mini varieties, all yellow and white/yellow kinds). Dug them all up, divided them, created a new bed in the front and then re-planted them (oh it must have been at least 200 or so bulbs) with an additional *80* mixed narcissus bulbs I got at the store last week. I also dug up the 12 mini-iris bulbs I planted around our cherry tree in late spring (after forgetting about them while they sat in the fridge all winter) and replanted them with another 80 dutch iris bulbs I purchased a few weeks ago. Iris. My favorite flower of all. And the deep purple ones? Make me weak in the knees.

Aahh. Spring flowers. Just something to look forward to as the days get colder, shorter and winter starts to set in.