A little tour of the porch today. I took these photos this morning. You can see the autumn sunlight in some of the shots. It was cold out there!
The view of the seating area and the morning light coming through the trees.
You can see how much the calibrachoa has grown.
Facing in the other direction; the maple tree and a couple of the hanging plants, the picnic table and potted impatiens.
The impatiens are huge!
I’ve had this Boston fern for 8 years now. It overwinters upstairs in the office/studio, eventually looks bedraggled and dry, then it moves outside and recovers.
Most of these plants will hang on through October and into early November. The setup is basically the same every year. These plants work well with our climate, and the little microclimate on the porch.
Makes me happy.
I leave on Friday morning for New Jersey and I’ll come back home on Sunday. I’ll be back with you on Monday.
Stay safe.
Happy Wednesday.
Your plants sure look lush and happy. I’m just trying to decide if I should bring some plants inside during winter or not.
Wishing you safe travels, Claudia.
I bring in the geranium and the fern. That’s it.
Stay safe, Ellen.
This makes me happy too, Claudia, thank you!
You’re welcome, Janice.
Stay safe.
I miss having a nice porch. So many pretty plants. I have impatiens by my front door and they are so pretty right now.
I love them. Just a real dependable and pretty plant!
Stay safe.
Such an inviting porch! Good luck in New Jersey. Safe trip.
Thank you, Barrie.
Stay safe.
Your porch is lovely!
Thank you, Judy.
Stay safe.
your porch was beautiful to begin with, and you and don have made it even moreso. good job! i bet it’s easy as (sugar-free apple) pie to spend hours at a time out there.
enjoy every minute!
hope work and travels go well. stay safe.
kathy
Thank you, Kathy.
Stay safe.
It’s a little haven. The light is changing, definitely autumnal light. Lovely.
Our extra room for 3/4 of the year.
Stay safe, Jeanie.
Thanks for the tour of your front porch. It seems the perfect place not only to grow flowers, or read, but, also to relax and contemplate life. I would be out there all the time, and I wouldn’t get much else done.
Safe travels this weekend. Hope everything goes well for you. Enjoy your day! ;)
Thanks, Donnamae.
Stay safe.
I love a nice porch and yours is especially so! I wish I had a porch but the houses in my development were built without them. There are houses in nearby developments that do have porches but hardly anyone uses them! I cat-sat a couple of months ago and my friend has a large front porch. It was so refreshing to sit and read there in the morning, supervising her cat who liked to lounge on the sunny front steps.
Safe drive to New Jersey and back, and fun (though probably very hectic) time on the job at the theater.
Thanks so much, Wendy.
Stay safe.
Enjoyed the tour of your lovely porch. Your plants are all so pretty. Safe travels on Friday. Hugs, Elaine
Thanks, Elaine!
Stay safe.
Love the pictures of your porch. Your plants are amazing! Looks like a wonderful place to sit. We left Phoenix yesterday to go up north to some cooler weather. We did it for Gracie, our Golden Retriever. We got some bad news the other day about her. She has liver cancer. We don’t know how much time we have left with her. Could be weeks or a month. So we wanted to get her out of the heat to enjoy some nice weather with her. She is loving laying out in the grass. Can’t do that in Phoenix now with the heat. Obviously we are devastated to get that news. Then that night my son came over to inform us his wife wants a divorce. They have given us our only grandchild, Greyson who is 10. When it rains it pours. We just have to take life a day at a time. It really sucks sometimes.
I’m so sorry about Gracie, Deb. It’s always so heartbreaking. And I’m sorry for your son.
Life really does suck at times.
Stay safe.
oh, deb …
i am sorry that you and your family are going through such sad, tough things.
may you all and gracie have more easy, quality time together (like your sweet trip up north) than might be predicted. if your son gets divorced, may it be as gentle as possible, too. and please take good care of yourself, always and especially now.
i will be praying for you all.
sending hugs (if okay),
kathy
Yoru first picture remindes me of a visite in Maryland about 15 years ago. It was about the same time of year when we sat on a porch surrounded by big trees. All the best! Regula
Thank you, Regula!
Stay safe.
That’s a little slice of heaven you have there. Thanks for the tour.
Thank you, Deb.
Stay safe.