time's fun when you're having flies...

I'm pretty sure that's a Ray Troll shirt but I still like a good pun.  Fall is here, we had a serious amount of termination dust after a storm last week.  Not the usual little sprinkle of snow on the peaks that is a warning of winter, this was snow 1/4 of the way down the mountains, even Ripinsky had snow!  It's melted back but it was the talk of the town for a couple of days!

 Late in the summer the sunflowers realize it's time to make flowers

 The only cosmos flower that made it to flower...then it got battered by rain, poor thing!

 Sometimes the weather gets better in the fall.  As a kid I swore the first day of school was warmer than all of August!  This is the view out across the Chilkat river near a famous local author's house.  I'm not writing her name here because last time I did she commented, in person, on something I wrote. 

If you're a northern tomato grower get these seeds!  Seriously delicious and fast enough to make lots of fruit even in a record cold and wet summer.  They are Territorial seeds (good company, not Monsanto or other giant conglomerate) TM877 "Gold Nugget".  After a frost warning, I brought this plant and 2 others inside, am harvesting little gold yummies daily.