. Monday, October 17, 2011 .
Today when Ella and I took our little stroll down the driveway to the mailbox I was SHOCKED to see this...unbelievable

Forsythia blooming at the end of October!  WHAT?

So I thought I would just have a little look around since it has been a day since I have been out in the yard...not that much could have changed...

our one and only little mum

The cosmos are just from seed I haphazardly just threw into the raised beds and the daisies we planted but had no idea what they were.

the never ending  bloomer 

These little roses have lived thru so much.  They moved to WI with us and then back to OH.  I can not part with them.  When we moved to WI about 12 years ago the youth group gave me a little potted rose bush that had maybe three buds on it.  Now it stands about three feet tall and is about that round.  Where ever I go it goes!
  
This Impatient volunteered to come up in the bricks under the pergola.  I just love that!

Zinnias are going crazy and look at the added bonus!  Two monarchs in two days.

A white coneflower

Unbelievable!