Wrapping Up Another Week, More or Less

     Hi everyone. Happy Friday. It's been a crisp fall like week at my house, with some sunny days and some cloudy ones. 

    And even a bit of rain, though not much. It was only 55 degrees F/ 13 degrees C when I went to work Wednesday, and it only reached a high of 63 degrees F/ 17 degrees C. Brr. And we've even had a couple nights where the temperature has dropped to 47 degrees F/ 8 degrees C.  Double brrr.  But there is a bit of a warm up coming, which is great since we have the niece's outdoor wedding tomorrow.

    Today I'm linking up to Nicole's Friday Face Off and Gillena's Friday Lunch Break. It hasn't been the most exciting of weeks, but here's some views  from this past week.

    The 2 mama turkeys and their babies were back. The babies are getting so big.

    Below, here's 3 other turkeys that came wandering through the yard. They're my faces for this week. I'm curious what the turkey population in my town is. I bet there's a lot of them because it seems you can't drive through town without seeing some.

I've been picking lots of tomatoes.

And also getting a regular pick of bell peppers and also jalapenos.

     I put some sunflower and zinnia seeds in a growing bag earlier this season. The sunflowers are getting very tall and  flower buds are forming, but no blooms yet.

And I FINALLY have a couple of cucumbers coming. It's about time.

Something is taking bites out of a few of my tomatoes. GRRR.

     The leaves of my brussel sprouts have been decimated. I'm guessing it's by some kind of insect since they are eaten around the veins, not just having a big bites taken out of them.

But I do have some little brussel sprouts starting. 

You can never be unhappy when your zinnias bloom.

And even better, I saw my first monarch caterpillar on one of the milkweed plants growing in my yard. 😀

This beetle  was glistening a gorgeous copper color in the sunlight at the boat ramp. When I checked what it was  my Google Lens identified it as a sculptured pine borer. 

I found this dead spider on top of my rain barrel, but I haven't been able to identify it.

This loon was sitting not too far off the boat dock at the boat ramp the other morning, serenading me. 

Speaking of loons, I learned this new fact about them this week.  It's on this never ending calendar my daughter picked up for me at a conference put  on by the department she works for in Massachusetts.

    And finally, I'll end this post with a view from a lovely morning walk I took the other day. That is one beautiful thing about cooler nights. They make wonderful mornings for walking.

    Have a wonderful rest of your Friday and start to your weekend.