Wow Brenda! All are simply beautiful! Your Mums look like fall, they look pretty terrific to me. All your plants and flowers look wonderful. I can't believe you still have Hollyhocks too. I thought they go at the first cooler temps at night. Now you have some great pics to look at and make some new screen savers as winter stretches on and you're tired of looking at all the bare ground and sticks:)

I'm really enjoying all the color the gardens are offering up, it's like fall gracefully bowing to winter:)

We're even supposed to be up to 80 in the next 7 days. I remember Thanksgiving of '05 and sitting out at the patio table visiting and also that was a wet year and the flooding around town. It started raining early that year too. We need the rain here, a lot of times it doesn't make it this far, it poops out in Fresno or Bakersfield.

Thanks for taking the time and offering up your pics, have any more to share:)

Thanks so much for your kind words, Leslie! I love looking back on pics from a couple years ago and seeing how everything has changed. And you're right; the difference between seasons is always amazing! I always look forward to the time when the Bermuda grass dies away in the cool weather, even if most of my plants don't bloom. :D

I hope the heat doesn't return for us, but you never know these days. Plus, being a slave to the hose is killing me! LOL

Brenda