Where Did Summer Go?

These first two pictures were taken just three weeks ago, when it was beginning to feel like there was a little Autumn in the air (can you find Olivia on the bench?). My flowers all looked pretty good yet so I snapped a bunch of pictures so in a couple of months I can look back and remember how nice it was outside.
It sure was a fast summer and even though I was getting a little tired of watering plants everyday I am not looking forward to the snow flying.

This third picture was just taken a couple days ago and this is about all that is left of my flowers.

The hanging baskets are still alive and good enough to put out during the day also. We are hanging on to summer as long as possible.

The garden was a huge success this year but I now have it all cleaned out and ready to be tilled up for next year.

There is still a lot of clean-up work to do outside before winter really hits and I guess I can look forward to catching up on scrapbooking once all the work (besides snow blowing) outside is cleaned up and done. There has to be a bright side somewhere!