I made this arrangement from maiden grass in our yard! This is my first time using the grass inside. I am not sure if it will last or just fall apart. Does anyone know? It is beautiful in the meantime!

As you saw in my previous posts, I have been drying herbs to store them whole and ground. It was time to clear out the garden until next year but our herbs looked so good still so I decided to bring them inside to have fresh herbs all winter. The fragrance they bring to the kitchen is better than any candle! In addition to the aloe plant, we have sage, rosemary, thyme, and oregano. I didn't plan to keep the chives in the bottom left but at the last minute I found a pot and will see how they do inside.

This is the porch Bobby designed and built. We had the front of our house in remodeling mode a lot of the summer with the new driveway and porch, so we did not do much landscaping. Today we redesigned the beds and mulched to create a canvas for my Fall decor in the coming days. Normally I am not a fan of red mulch but since we have a reddish roof and reddish shutters I think it looks great and makes our white house and porch pop. 

From bright sun, beautiful flowers, hot sand, chirping birds, and long days, we now enter a new color of life. Summer ends, Fall begins.

I have always dreaded Fall and Winter. It  seems like an end to all of the wonderful things I love in life - sun, sand, and sail. As I grow older, I am yearning to embrace the seasons and be thankful for the blessings that surround us, even if they don't seem like blessings at the time. 

I wanted to try growing rainbow carrots from seed. Bobby built me a raised bed for carrots and cucumber since we didn't have room in our garden. Then we bought chickens...

Adrian is our Plymouth Rock, Ruby is our Rhode Island Red, Hennifer is our Easter Egger. They are spoiled beyond belief!