While it is incredibly hot out there, if you look around my garden you would swear it was Autumn already (the season of mellow fruitfulness) The apples are hanging off the trees, just begging to be picked (which I truly must do in the next week, while I am happy to leave some for the birds I would like to gather some for myself and the next door neighbor's kids). As I wandered around the garden this weekend I noticed that the Elderberries were in full fruit, much to the delight of the Blue Jays and Mockingbirds. The grapes have already ripened and been gobbled up by said Blue Jays and Mockingbirds (I think perhaps I ate 3 this year, a record for me).



My Sweet Autumn Clematis Vine is in full flower and smells like heaven, not only does it smell good, it is obviously loaded with nectar because every nectar loving insect etc., within five miles appears to be visiting which of course means that both the dragonflies and the lizards are patrolling, hoping that something edible will land :)



Even my hosta are blooming right now which usually doesn't happen until much later in the year. I am thinking that perhaps we are in for a really cold winter, because everything seems to be on a fast track.



Yesterday I was wandering around the garden and I came upon this "goose egg" a garden spider, so fat I think she was about to bust, she is no doubt going to lay a huge egg case here real soon, in fact my one in the front of the house has already laid hers and died, that being her goal in life. Like I said, things are happening really early.



I just hope that the tadpoles in my pond have time to mature, right now they are still tadpoles, lets hope that they have the opportunity to turn into frogs. So much for climate change huh?