A memory of summer

Hard to believe, but this rose is still blooming today - November 23rd!!

Is winter here already?

So... is winter here??? The light dusting of snow might make you think so, but it is only -1C but the windchill is ferocious, something like -800C. :)

On the CBC web site...

Check out the CBC web site to see fall photos.

PHOTOS: Ottawa's fall colours
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 | 3:01 PM ET

Snow started falling in Ottawa last weekend, but for a few more days the fall season's reds and golds will linger around and line the sidewalks.

This slideshow, narrated by CBC Ottawa's weather specialist Ian Black, features some of the best photos sent in from our audience across the Ottawa area this fall.

There are a few days left of fall weather, Black said, so enjoy it while you can.

You can see the list of contributors below the slide show. See if you can recognize any names. :) My photo is at 0:43 to 0:40 remaining.

Whoa!! Snow????

What???? It is snowing!! Fortunately it won't really stick around. :)

Pretty sights!

 
When I was getting the house ready for a showing, the Little Dickens and the Big Dickens jumped on the bed. You can tell that Tawny knows she wasn't supposed to be there because of the sheepish look on her face. (Oct 18th)
 
The gorgeous sunset was lighting up the bottom of the clouds. (Oct 18th)
 
We haven't had a hard frost yet! (Oct 20th)

Beautiful sunny day

 
The sunlight lit up a chilly landscape - a light frost but a fog from the lake, since the water was warmer than the air.
 
The frost hasn't killed the pretty flowers yet (dahlias??).
 
It seems that the goldfinches have gone, but the Chickadees are still here.
 
The Chickadees like the finch feeder, so I am leaving one of them up - I put the smaller one away.

On TV, take 12

This is Freda's photo of the young Chickadee on tv - her second photo. This is the 12th photo that I've submitted that's been on tv. I see that I have missed posting about #10 and #11 due to the ISP outage that we had. I will try to catch up...

A pretty thistle...

Usually I am picking the weed seeds off the dogs coats after the walk, but this morning I took this photo of this thistle seed. The white ball of seeds is so pretty and fluffy and not prickly at all - how deceptive Mother Nature is sometimes!

Bundle of fluff

I was walking the dogs on Monday afternoon, and Freda spotted this little bundle of fluff on the back deck - a very young chickadee. Freda thought it might have been injured, but it flew away a little while later so were glad that it was alright.

Lovely fall day, but a bit windy!

The morning dawns with a beautiful clear day, brilliantly lighting up all the colours in the trees.

The fall mums looks wonderful. We have several colours of mums in the front garden, and they all LOVE the location, judging by their size! :) In this photo, there is a bright pink in the foreground right, then some dark red ones in the middle, and then two pale pink mums in the pots on the steps (far right) -- these colours of these ones are a bit washed out because the sun is so bright.

A shovel and some culverts were delivered. It looks like the city is going to start the work to put in the ditches and culverts to properly channel the runoff water. This is good news!

The wind had really picked up by the afternoon, and the lake actually had breaking waves on it!