Halloweeny Characters on our Front Lawn!

A Picture of Dorian Orange

He looks meaner and more scary every day closer we get to Halloween!

At first he looked pretty happy and nice.  Just maybe a little naughty. . .

Now he's turning scary!  I guess that's the nature of a jack-o-lantern, to be scary for Halloween.  He's getting lots of practice and it shows!

Weird From the Desktop

Four-armed monster does his homework

A New Face at Our House!

Who is that sitting above the October roses?  It's Athena's Jack-o-Lantern!

He looks naughty, doesn't he?  And she's so nice and sweet.  Maybe Athena expresses her darker self through her pumpkins and that's why she's able to keep such a happy mood almost all the time. 

He has a lot more character than the other pumpkins.  Although the one whose eye fell off and I colored in with a Sharpie marker, that one is his own pumpkin, too.

These roses were blooming when we moved in.  They're still blooming.

Happy Birthday Carsten!

Below are pictures of Carsten from yesterday.

And here he is a year ago:

Doesn't he look a lot more grown up already?  

Dahlias and a Sweet Baby Bee

These little bees seem to live in this dahlia plant.  They hide within the curled-up petals as though they are in a honeycomb.  Some days a flower will have 4-5 bees in it.   We have many dahlia plants, and while these bees visit all the flowers of all the dahlia plants, they live only in one of the plants.  There are also some scary-looking jumping spiders that have moved to this plant. 

High Kicks

Carsten earned his next belt last Thursday.  He's now an orange belt with one white stripe.

He can kick higher than his own head. 

Next belt after the orange belt with one white stripe will be solid orange.  His favorite color!