Flowers and a poppet

I really would have thought by now that the cold rain and occasional bit of snow we've had would have gotten rid of all the flowers.  But the garden still has some little guys toughing it out in there.

These things look a lot more purple in person, and they are really still going strong, tucked in amongst the trees.

Over near the garden's maypole are a lot of other flowers, like these:

And these which seem to be doing a lot better than most:

And there is even some foxglove left out there:

Oh, and I noticed another of these today:

These poppets are part of the Unforgotten Sisters project. The one I saw earlier in the year had a woman's details on its tag, but this one does not.

Winter berries

Good grief it's cold outside.  Not much interesting to photograph today either, so I stopped by some bushes with pretty red berries.

It's too early to look this Christmasish!

It's a cotoneaster of some sort, though which I do not know.

Goose, duck, (other) duck

Today the lazy geese are still hanging out in the marina, maybe fattening up for another leg south.

Just hanging out, eating the last of the seaweed.

The mallards are still pretty much just hanging around and hoping for handouts.

Got bread?

This is another kind of duck, but the camera phone is just not good enough for a crisp shot of them.  A male and female of the same species -- I believe they're called longtails.

Over at HTO West, between it and the nearby condo block, there is a long-ignored planter which no one has put cabbages in yet this year.  Instead, there are some of the season's last flowers blooming in it.

Geese and yellow flowers

A cold and dreary day here.  There were some geese still lagging behind the others who've been steadily flying south and, instead, hanging out in the marina.

See that light on?  It's 3:30 in the afternoon!

And yet more cabbages in the garden, but I saw that the yellow flowers planted with them are doing really well.

Yellow flowers.  Look at that cabbage go!

Mallow and horses

Despite being only 6℃ today, the sun was bright and warm.

The NYC and AYC look snugged in for Winter with all their boats on the hard.  And the shrink wrapping has begun, too.

Boaties all i a row.

Along Little Norway Crescent, hollyhock is in bloom.

At least I think it's some kind of mallow.

And back along Marina Quay West, I saw some police out on their horses.  If you squint, you might be able to see them, too.

One dark, one pale.  The horses, I mean.

Cold fuzzies

A lot of things have gone to fuzz in the last week.  The milkweeds went first, now other things are going.  Last week, I think this looked like little daisies.

Not as out of focus at it looks ...

And the goldenrod has gone to seed, too.

If only we could stop it now.

Meanwhile, there are some bellflowers peeping up amid the other dying weeds.

aka Campanula

And these which I can't identify for the life of me, but I think it might be some kind of vetch.

Definitely as blurry as it looks.

First snow

You can't see the flakes in this picture, and they're melting as soon as they hit the ground, but yep, it's -1 ℃ today, and it's snowing.

The Fall colours may not last much longer.