While I'm focussing on preparing for winter (!) there are still things flowering in the garden and around the acreage. Here some Malva flowers keep the season bright, while Parthenocissus /Virginia Creeper behind has already turned fall colours! September *is* fall, in Alberta! Weather could be warm or cool, we could see snow, or rain (no snow yet this year, but we've alternated pleasant with cool and damp)-- so it is time to wrap up garden tasks for the year-- there should be some weeks left to get stuff done, but nothing is guaranteed! And after a spring and half of summer where I barely got out there, I have a lot to do! I've spent a couple of recent afternoons outside, trying to catch up on weeding and other tasks, so,yesterday, pulled a few more tons of weeds, esp thistles, collected seeds, chopped a few dozen poplar saplings and stuffed them in the Fedge (that's another topic), did a touch of mowing, picked up some fallen apples-- of course spent too