What's Blooming Sept. First?

Took a brief walk outside in the backyard after dinner.  Had to water some new transplants with all the heat we are having.  Decided then to grab the new camera and show off what's still in bloom as September begins.

Not blooms but lovely green leaves of these plantain lilies or hosta.  Last year all that was showing at this time were the leafless stems thanks to the deer.  Not this year thanks to fishing line measures.

You can tell by the droop that its hot and at the end of a growing season.

Here are some new blooms.  Obedient plant?  I never can remember the correct name.  My mother-in-law gave these to me and I'm thankful they bloom in September.

This day lily is on its very last bloom this evening.  I don't know if it was an aberration but it has bloomed all summer.  Can't remember that happening before.

Black-eyed susans still in bloom.  Goldfinches love these.

I cut my clematis down in June after it became diseased.  It has resurrected and now starting to bloom again.  No sign of the disease.

And the knockout roses are a knockout.

A fleeting flower on the moon plant.

Here is one of my transplants - an aster.  I hope it survives the winter.

I didn't walk around to the front and Mom's Garden. Too hot!  I know the lavender is blooming again.  The Autumn Joy sedum is blooming but that bed has no fishing line protection and depends upon my spraying Liquid Fence.  Unfortunately the deer have begun to nibble on those sedums though I hope the application of L.F. yesterday will deter them.

Unpacking the Harvest

This is the basket of produce from my vegetable garden this morning.

Here's a closer look at what's in there.

Two heads of lettuce.  There's lots more to come there.

Zucchini and yellow squash, though 3 of these were harvested yesterday.

A very long cucumber which was a surprise since the plants are dying and I don't know why.

And a Jimmy Nardello pepper.

Almost the last tomatoes.  There will probably some Juliette yet but the others are basically dead.

Three butternut squash.  In cutting the largest one off the vine I cut the entire vine not realizing that at the other end were very small squash starting to develop.  Oh, well.  These are headed to cure in the sun.  I don't know why I do that other than my mother did it with her plentiful harvests of butternuts each fall.  Maybe a fellow gardener can enlighten me on this tradition.

Joining Daphne's Harvest Monday

Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, AZ

Two years ago we visited Arizona where my brother and sister-in-law live.  We took a side trip with them to Sedona and one of our stops was the Chapel of the Holy Cross sometimes referred to as the Rock Church.

Here are the photos I took while there.

It's not very big but quite a tourist stop.  Parking can be difficult but volunteers steer you in the right direction.

I didn't get a photo of the chapel against the Sedona hillside but I think these rock formations qualify as spires, don't you?  

Above taken mid-day and below at sunset.

Joining Inspired Sunday

What is This? (4)

Northern Pennsylvania towns must have a thing for pianos on the street.

Above in Selinsgrove, PA

Below Wellsboro, PA

4th in an irregular series on "art" captured on the street.