These are from my visit to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens the first week of November on their free day. It was packed as this was the last week of the Chihuly installation. I love what happens to the blooms in the autumn. The seed pods are at their glory and there are still some beautiful flowers in bloom and vibrant berries.
A collective set of photos taken the past week or so…
The pretty purple morning glories somewhere on ninth street in Old Hickory and a garden spider, Argiope aurantia, also called the writing spider or banana spider just outside the Mayo's. I call him Fred. Isn't he beautiful against the blue sky in the morning light?
Morning glory black and white study.
The royal, majestic and abundant purple morning glory.
Love the color of these. Hydrangea are beautiful in this state.
So many spider webs around. This one had a feather. This morning when I went out on my deck, just before dawn, I counted about 25 spiders doing their thing!
Along the brown/orange and green palette, we have Slim Jim in the grass in the early morning light.
Stray Dude in his best Buddah pose.
Tunnel Spider web. I have never seen a tunnel spider, that I know of, but I can only imagine that if I put my hand near the "tunnel" I would probably never see it again!
A holly hock leaf used as a canvas for some critter to create art!