Apples, Grapes, Friends, Furniture, Super Moon, Sunset and Wildflowers

62 with a few light clouds, crisp and cool this morning after yesterday afternoon's rain.

Much to do today: cook down these apples for applesauce, 

pick grapes 

make juice, 

meet a friend for lunch (forgot to take a photo, we were talking too much!), 

and finish this dresser. 

And it all got done. 

This was a good day. The only disappointment was the super moon, which wasn't so super due to the thin, high clouds. 

But the sunset was glorious.

I took my time coming home from lunch to stop and smell the flowers. Well, not really smell, but photograph some of the fall flowers in bloom along our road.

Common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Wild Lettuce (Lactuca canadensis). Flowers are usually a pale lavender-blue in our area.

I am not sure of this one. Perhaps St. John's Wort? (Hypericum perfortum)

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)

Showy Tick Trefoil (Desmodium canadense). You will know you've run into this one when you find yourself picking hundreds of tiny, sticky green triangles off your clothing!

Wingstem (Actinomeris alternifolia). This is in great abundance along our road this year.

Wingstem and Ironweed (Vernonia altissima)

Wingstem lining the path down to our small watershed "lake".

Joe Pye Weed, one of my favorite fall wildflowers (Eupatorium dubium).

So much color! Joe Pye, Ironweed, Wingstem, and Evening Primrose here.

Wild Lettuce seed head. 

I think I will go back out and check on that moon.

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