Improbable Flowers

It's 35 and windy and precipitating ice... but these honeysuckles don't seem to notice!

Witch hazel

Last flowers of the year... (or not, it turns out!)

It's C-c-c-cold

Yesterday it was in the 60s, but brutal winds carried in a cold front... this morning there are snow flurries swirling all over, even starting to stick. Welcome, winter!

(And happy birthday to Chris!)

Unseasonable

November 1 and it was in the mid 70s today. I saw butterflies and grasshoppers and bees and dragonflies... here's one: