Enchanting October...

Lately I have been very busy with homestead chores and spent little time with my camera...So this post has only a few enchanting bits...to share.
I visited the cemetery to  photo some new graves that need to be added to Find a Grave, it's good to have decent weather to do that in.  When Im there I normally do run into Killdeer...it's hard to find shade in an open landscape. 

But they are very enterprising, some non descript weeds give life to a Wooly Bugger or better know as a Giant Leopard Moth Caterpillar. 

In the yard a Brown Thrasher stopped to do some feather dusting on this limb...

One female Hummingbird is hanging here...so the feeder is still up...and this well worn Red Spotted Purple  took advantage...

Im harvesting the Cilantro now a pinch at a time to spice up my meals Great window ledge herb.

I cooked a  birthday eve meal for one, homemade potato salad and vegan cornbread! I used coconut milk and veggie oil as the binder, with yellow corn meal and some flour...and I enjoy  savor seasoning...a few cilantro leaves on top of the salad...

And in the background is a Cake topped with some chocolate chips, and it is pretty darn tasty!  The cast iron adds a delicious crust to the bottom.

On my birthday I had a wonderful Skype chat with  my lovely sisters, that was the Best time I've had in months...and that afternoon my Son shared  pizza and beer with me, so I was a happy Birthday Girl...

And this answered a puzzle I had seen a large "scat" in the road filled with permission seeds, and I thought coyote, possibly, last evening I went out with the girls I have to make sure Floss doesn't go out and just lay down and not take care of her bathroom chores, since she has really grown weak in her back legs, So we heard some wild cackling calls...and today we had this visitor to our field..

A Gray Fox

She ate some persimmons and then went on her way...I don't know how she is getting in the field?  I must walk the fence...

Sure is a beauty

I waited all summer for this Zinna to bloom... and it opened on my birthday....well worth the wait..

HeLLO pretty orange just right for Halloween--- I will enjoy it till frost.  Time has accelerated. 

Make the day seem to us less brief.

Hearts not averse to being beguiled,

Beguile us in the way you know.
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From October, Robert Frost

PEACE

Every day is a new Adventure.