I've been watching this worm devour this rosebud...
over several days now...
why didn't I save the rosebud when I first found the worm ?
it's so late in the season that the rose probably wouldn't bloom...
at least, not and "hold"... it's too cold & wet...
this worm is done chewing-up these blooms...
that we spotted as we walked the neighborhood today...
the one eating the rosebud is a caterpillar with spiky hairs...
who will probably spin himself into a cocoon soon...
emerging as a butterfly in the spring...
this one has already encased itself in a cocoon...
anyway...that's what I think it is..
I found this camellia shyly peeking out from behind the leaves...
and the buds on this redwood tree will become the seed cones...
that will grow into the spring, mature over the summer...
and open...spreading thousands of tiny seeds next fall...
there are very few leaves left on this liquid amber tree...
this one is hanging by the merest of threads...
this double red camellia is on a bush that got a good deal of sun this fall...
and most of it's blooms are on the ground already...
mine won't bloom until much later...
this shriveled-up Meyer lemon is left from the summer crop...
the tree is covered with the soon-to-be-ready winter crop...
as well as a couple of these mummified corpses...
of what could have been...
and finally, a creeper leaf...once green & lush...
then bright red, flaming for a bit...then fading...
now merely a dry husk, waiting for a good storm to wash it off...
crumbling into dust and back into the earth, from whence it came...
it's nearly winter...
the summer went out in a blaze of fall glory...
and it is now the time of darkness & cold...
and waiting... for the light...
Advent begins on Sunday...
post script... edited after I became unsure...
of just what was on the flowers...
in the 2nd picture...
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