the vegetables aren't so sure. The bees are still finding food from unexpected sources, as a late batch of corn blooms in our garden (we picked some today - sweet, and plenty more to come, which is unusual, as the frosts should have arrived by now). The tomatoes and beans are still offering up food, while the pumpkins have ripened nicely - at the same time as the cabbage, cauliflower, brocolli, onion, and pea seedlings are all burgeoning. A day ago the snow peas opened their first blossoms, so that it something to look forward to.
Other insects and small life are busy, too, and a porch light left on overnight attracted moths to the wall beneath it - to the delight of this tiny spider....
Yet, when I went fishing out along the Cox's River a couple of days ago, the algae that normally send the water green during the hot, slow days of Summer was flourishing.....
Flourishing to the extent that a blue-green algae warning was issued the next day for Lake Lyell, a few kilometres downstream from where this picture was taken. If you are wondering why there are no fish-pix, the big ones all got off after brief tussles - only the tiny ones were willing to pose for a photo.
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