A Glorious Morning

Today is just a glorious morning. It feels and smells like the beach. I love when we have a weather system dropping down from Alaska. It brings such nice weather with it. The wind is blowing and we have clouds. Great but gray looking clouds. Its so nice to have some weather and a break from the sun. I have only a small bit of my last flowerbed to clean today. I am taking out my Black-Eyed Susans today. They get so filled with grass its just easier to take them out and start over.

 I have a few white pumpkins. I am hoping for some more. I don't know if we stay cool. I do have some orange ones though. It will be time to take out the garden soon. Its all very tired. It will be nice to turn my attention to house things for awhile. Like cooking. I found out something yesterday. I love carrot muffins and carrot cake. I just never like the shredding of it. I read yesterday to take your carrots and cook them and mash them. It worked so nice. I used all the carrots I had. I think I want to make pumpkin muffins today. I have been experimenting trying to get a gluten free baking to turn out. Without using Xanthan gum.
So far I have been disappointed. Except make cream cheese frosting and slap that on and it makes everything taste better. Its a little like learning to cook all over again.

The leaves are beginning to change. I think the poor things are just tired of the heat. Its so nice to hear the sound of the ocean in the cottonwoods. I think that is my favorite thing about cottonwoods. They won't change color until about 18th of December though.

Have a lovely day,
~Kim~

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop