Gobble, gobble ....

The spooks disappeared, must have been chased away by these Pilgrims and their turkey!

Not sure where the spooks went, but these seasonal visitors are a welcome change of pace on our kitchen table!  They don't seem to eat much but provide smiles at meal times!

Denny's still head chef while I am recovering!  But, am rocking and rolling along in my high fashion boots now so am helping a bit!  I even got to the grocery store a few days and refreshed my cart driving skills not knocking into displays or other shoppers!

Unusual fall and early winter color!

A few years ago one of our garden club programs featured creating winter holiday bouquets.  The floral arranger introduced us to a beautiful change of pace with a branch of pink berries!  It is a Winter Berry shrub variety called "Coral Berry".

Needless to say, in the spring I was shopping for this delightful addition for one of my flower beds!  It has made a simply spectacular replacement for a rose bush where I wanted to discourge neighborhood kids and dogs from entering a flower bed.  The size and fact that it was a shrub that grows just the right size works perfectly.  Add to that the beauty of the abundant pink berries in the fall and early winter landscape it has been a winner for me!  Simple to care for and prune makes it perfect!

Absolutely charming!

It is also a beautiful green shrub spring and summer!

For more information about this shrub click here!

Are your garden beds ready for their winter's nap?

This hosta bed has about 50 hostas in it! Many of them are big ones!

Thank goodness 90% of our garden beds were all ready for winter before our car accident!

Denny had to finish the job and take care of the lawn/leaves himself this year.   The hosta bed looks pretty empty but we do it the easy way because I have about 100 hostas!  I like to get those leaves off so the slug eggs are exposed to winter temps so they don't survive so well.  Plus,  I don't like removing the dead hosta leaves in the spring and risk stepping on the early rising pips hiding under the dead leaves!   So, we wait until after a killing frost and most of them drying up so all we have to do is pick the leaves up easily and dispose of them in our city compost dump!  Sure is less work than cutting them off and cleaning/disinfecting the cutter blades between each plant to avoid spreading any diseases that may be hiding in the plants!

Looks  pretty dull out there but come spring it will be colorful with spring bulbs of all kinds that peak up to greet the season before the hostas pop up!