As expected, we sunk down below freezing Tuesday night. Glad I got the last of the vegetables harvested. Surprisingly, many of the garden plants actually looked pretty good in the morning, but we’ll see after 2 days of below freezing temperatures overnight.
I ended up leaving the single perfect rosebud on the plant. In the morning it was still tightly closed, just half the size as the day before.
The coleus and petunias showed their unhappiness by curling up their leaves and petals like they were trying to stay warm.
Then later yesterday, I headed up to Michigan for a quick visit to my mom’s. The drive was interesting, both from the quirky weather and the seemingly random changing of the colors. I would have expected a gradual transition as I headed north, but instead, the colors were highly variable, with some places still green, others showing beautiful colors, then still more already bare. This morning, we woke up to this–
Not sure I’m ready!