End of Summer Blossoms

Greetings on a soggy Labor Day Sunday!  Wish I could say summer was over down here, but the month of September is usually the most tropical of all.  Or maybe it's just that I'm that much more tired of heat and humidity?  I've spent the past few mornings hoping it would be cool and dry enough to walk in our local park, but it's still too soon for that.  So, I'll just drudge on through the rest of September and wait for the real change of season coming sooner or later in October.

Toward that end, I thought it might be fun to post about all the end of summer bursts of color I've noticed lately.  Speaking of which, here are the blossoms that sprung up on Miss Hannah Pepper since my last post.

Pretty spectacular, even if I do say so myself.

I'd set a goal to have Hannah finished by the end of September, but at this point, I just don't know if Hannah and I will make it bv then.  The rest of the stitching left on her is simply a mirror image of what's above. But my work schedule for the rest of the month is a bear and I already know there will be limited time for her.  Maybe her finish will come with the first cool dry morning surely to arrive in October.......

I think I've mentioned before how lovely the blossoms on our annual okra plantings are.  We've had a bumper crop this summer with all the rain in July  and the intense sunshine in August.  Such fun to watch!  The transformation goes from buttery yellow blossoms with deep velvet centers....

  to brilliant green okra pods, ready for picking....

...to a favorite southern delicacy - okra pickles! 

Other spots of color to be found  include fire spike, which attracted humming birds all summer long, as well as a bevy of butterflies each morning....

Spanish petunia, which always reminds me of strolling the neighborhoods of Key West....

...and Beauty Berry, which ripens to deep purple as surely as autumn does approach.

So as my thoughts turn to fall, I'm hoping the weather mellows along with them.  Here's wishing for a cool and dry Labor Day to all.

Thanks for stopping to chat!