Another morning with frost on the roofs, but the garden is holding out. Blueberry leaves look stained with berry juice, and will soon drop to the ground.
When I went out this morning to grocery shop, I wished I had my gloves on while driving, for it was decidedly chilly. By this afternoon, I took off my socks and walked barefoot in the house because of the warmth.
I spent much of the day in the kitchen, making soup, meatballs, a white chicken chili in the crockpot, and a Butternut squash quiche for dinner. The latter was very good (the link will send you to the recipe - it calls for pumpkin, but I used Butternut Squash, and Swiss Chard from the garden in place of spinach). I like to have a few meals in the freezer for busy days. And I made up some meals for my parents. We'll take them over to the mainland next time we go.
The flowers in these photos are ones I clipped yesterday when the first frost appeared. I normally like just one variety per vase, or maybe two, but yesterday I crammed them into vases, mixing zinnias and dahlias and cosmos and roses with wild abandon.
I don't have much Autumn decor. Yellows, golds, and browns are not my favourite colours, but I do like having bits of them here and there. I thought the last sunflowers looked well on the runner with the same embroidered flowers.
All that cooking today was fairly tiring, so I'm happy to sit and read for awhile this evening.
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