We are seeing autumn reds on maple trees and others much earlier this year, these were taken in Pound, VA on the southern side of Pine Mountain.

One September long past this little grasshopper stayed still long enough to have their portrait taken.

Early every Sunday morning hubs and I have breakfast at our locally owned casual dining place. Been doing it for more than a decade. Great community resource. Love the folks work there. Usually pretty quiet at 8 am.

A butterfly in the yard, and my roses winding down for the year.

at the end of August the golden rod is just beginning to show up (one from this year and one from a past year).

the weather channel tells me that we will have at least another 10 days of these marvelous cool nights before it warms up again. I often see these red spotted newt efts in late August when it cools, haven't spotted one yet this year so this is from a few years ago.

Overnight temperatures dipped to 50 F, a tiny harbinger of autumn in the air, and on my car windshield.

we don't get as many wild sunflowers these days because the trees have grown up closer to the yard and there's too much shade, so these are from Augusts past. I do miss these shiny yellow faces.

Today are some pictures of my cat Jake back when he was feral and lived outdoors. He's been indoors for six years and isn't feeling too well, so has to go to the vet for a few days to figure out what's going on.

One of my favorite wildflowers blooms in late August, called virgin's bower, it is a opportunistic vine that weaves its way through other wild shrubs, and has a delicate white blossom. First picture is this year, the one's with bumble bees from previous years.

Restarting my series of daily posts of mostly flora & fauna in my neck of the eastern Kentucky woods. Photographs are from past as well as present, all photographs were taken by me, & unless otherwise designated are from eastern Kentucky, either my local neighborhood, my yard or local region.

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