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mistressofmuses) wrote2025-10-30 11:57 am
mistressofmuses) wrote2025-10-30 11:57 am
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Tuesday, October 21: Hudson Gardens
We've been lucky enough this year to have a quite pleasant long fall. Last week we wanted to enjoy the nice day, and so we went over to Hudson Gardens. It's an easy walk, and always pretty.
Some very nice fall colors!
In Colorado, most of our fall color is shades of gold (which I do love!) but it's a little novel to have things more in the orange and red tones.
I was delighted that there were still a lot of roses blooming. And I'm always happy with bees.
More of the gold colors. Lovely!
There were some neat crayfish. The one that's on the right was HUGE. Freshwater lobster. (And I was pleased with the reflection of the leaves.)
Frog! :D (I was hoping there would still be a few frogs out, and was happy that there were.)
Surprisingly, the roses were still extremely happy! We've had a couple frosts by now, so I'd expected the roses would be gone. They were actually looking better now than they were earlier in the summer. They weathered the season change better than the Japanese beetles, ha.
Always love the candy-stripe flowers.
Bee!
Very perfect red rose.
Bee on the approach.
A blanket flower.
Moth! :D
More fall color!
I do really like the orange.
We stopped at the cafe for a snack. I got a smoothie instead of coffee, and it was so good. Pear, peach, apricot. Delicious.
This is once again "Magic of the Jack o' Lanterns" season, where they have a bunch of displays of carved (foam) pumpkins. They're neat, but they are identical to last year. (Plus there was a windstorm the day before, and a bunch had fallen and hadn't yet been picked back up...)
Squirrel!
While we saw quite a few crayfish, there were relatively few (not none, but few) frogs throughout most of the gardens, so we went back to the first pond to visit the first batch of frogs again, haha.
:D
Three frogs! (One in the upper right, one in the lower left, and one above that.)
Another lovely day that I'm glad we got to enjoy.
Some very nice fall colors!
In Colorado, most of our fall color is shades of gold (which I do love!) but it's a little novel to have things more in the orange and red tones.
I was delighted that there were still a lot of roses blooming. And I'm always happy with bees.
More of the gold colors. Lovely!
There were some neat crayfish. The one that's on the right was HUGE. Freshwater lobster. (And I was pleased with the reflection of the leaves.)
Thirteen more pictures (flowers, frogs...):
Frog! :D (I was hoping there would still be a few frogs out, and was happy that there were.)
Surprisingly, the roses were still extremely happy! We've had a couple frosts by now, so I'd expected the roses would be gone. They were actually looking better now than they were earlier in the summer. They weathered the season change better than the Japanese beetles, ha.
Always love the candy-stripe flowers.
Bee!
Very perfect red rose.
Bee on the approach.
A blanket flower.
Moth! :D
More fall color!
I do really like the orange.
We stopped at the cafe for a snack. I got a smoothie instead of coffee, and it was so good. Pear, peach, apricot. Delicious.
This is once again "Magic of the Jack o' Lanterns" season, where they have a bunch of displays of carved (foam) pumpkins. They're neat, but they are identical to last year. (Plus there was a windstorm the day before, and a bunch had fallen and hadn't yet been picked back up...)
Squirrel!
While we saw quite a few crayfish, there were relatively few (not none, but few) frogs throughout most of the gardens, so we went back to the first pond to visit the first batch of frogs again, haha.
:D
Three frogs! (One in the upper right, one in the lower left, and one above that.)
Another lovely day that I'm glad we got to enjoy.
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Roses are generally heartier than I give them credit for! I'm glad they've hung on so long.
This year is very lucky for the autumn colors. Some years we don't really get any at all, because we get an early snow that kills the leaves before they turn. This year has been beautiful. (I'm still not ready for winter to happen, though. But it is nice that we've gotten a real fall.)
Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, all the same! I like the living ones enough that I don't want to eat them, haha. (Though in some of the parks you can fish for them. I remember a guy explaining to me when I was a kid how to use bacon to catch them.)
Wonderful game of Spot The Frog in that one image
Re: Wonderful game of Spot The Frog in that one image
Thank you! :)
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