Walk With Me - Weeds and Seeds

A perfect autumn day, bright & crisp. Let's stroll around the WillOaks Farm!

Milkweed fluff is everywhere, like flying fairies.

The "bones" of the plants are easy to see this time of year.

The seeds for next year are unmistakable.
Weeds or wild flowers? It just depends of where and how much!

It's magical how the afternoon light plays on the delicate natural forms.

Most of the color of summer has faded away, leaving neutral textures.

Except in a few cases where very unexpected color pops into view!

A new treasury really captures the season for me:

Au Naturelle...creamy taupe with hint of caramel

Please click and visit this lovely collection, curated by NestHavenStudio, who curates many lovely treasuries, listed on her page.

Isn't is sort of uncanny how these colors and textures echo the weeds and seeds we just looked at on our autumn walk? The changing seasons can be a very real source of artistic inspiration.

I think this should be on the Etsy Front page so I'm asking my blog visitors to PLEASE click here to visit this treasury--and comment if you like! It's a numbers game to get to the Etsy front page these days, because although the curators may put very beautiful and worthy collections together, unless they can motivate viewers to visit, these collections barely get seen...while some pretty awful ones, who get the tweets and the visits even without much artistic merit, get to the front page of the web site.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful Friday!!

Almost Weeds-Too Much of a Good Thing

I must laugh at myself when I remember carefully planting two or three new baby plants of most of these flowers some years ago. Then nurturing them to try to fill what seemed like vast expanses of open soil. This group of plants is "almost" weeds because they've become TOO successful!! And I missed the Spring opportunity to either thin some out or dig up extra volunteers to trade with or give to other gardener friends in the neighborhood.

Many self-seed too prolifically for a "normal" garden. Others multiply at the base to become huge colonies AND self-seed. Although individually, most are quite desirable--even beautiful--it's too much of a good thing and frankly, it's kind of a mess. Many areas have truly "gotten away from me" and I have no master plan for what I can do next....but hopefully, I'll come up with something to tame this crazy "front yard"....next year?