Love being able to pick zucchini in October. Gonna make some chocolate chip zucchini bread that the kids will devour in no time. 🌱

I picked the last of the potatoes from the garden the day before fall arrived, and tonight I finally got around to making them in the air fryer with olive oil, salt and garlic. 👨‍🍳🌱

Hadn’t seen any visitors in almost 2 weeks. Then these two beauties showed up today. It was more like a pit stop because fueled up and were on their way. Glad they at least sat still for one last photo. 🌱

West Virginia and Pitt have agreed to extend their Backyard Brawl football series for four more years from 2033 to 2036.

BREAKING: Suspect in custody in connection with Charlie Kirk shooting is a 22-year-old from Utah, an AP source says.

Every day, I wonder whether it might be the last time I see a butterfly this year before the great migration. This was today on my Mexican sunflower. Safe travels, my friend. 🌱

Finally got around to cutting the watermelon I picked from the garden before the recent cold snap hit. 🌱

It’s Backyard Brawl week. West Virginia’s Rich Rodriguez says “13-9” is still a sore spot when that 2007 loss to Pitt is brought up. “It was the worst moment of my professional career from a game standpoint. I tried to move past it a long time ago.” apnews.com/article/west...

A cantaloupe picked today from my garden. 🌱

Rural hospitals are preparing to lose billions of dollars from President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending cut bill signed into law this summer.

West Virginia beats Robert Morris 45-3 in Rich Rodriguez’s first game back as coach apnews.com/article/robe...

Luffas gone wild 🌱

Visits like this is why I can never get any work done. 🌱😍

Finally was able to get a video, photo _ something! _ of a hummingbird on the Mexican sunflowers. Every stinking’ time I had tried before, they would immediately take off upon seeing me. They sure like their privacy around here. 🌱

The way the sun angle made my Mexican sunflower glow today. 🌱📷❤️

This beauty spent the better part of the afternoon on the Mexican sunflowers today. 🌱

A federal judge allowed four football players to compete at West Virginia this season, the latest ruling in one of a long line of cases challenging the NCAA’s eligibility rules. apnews.com/article/ncaa...

BREAKING: Texas House gives initial approval to new maps that would create up to five more winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

The Menendez brothers are set to make their cases for parole this week.

National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump’s federal crackdown on crime and homelessness in the District of Columbia, according to the D.C. National Guard.

All that glitters in my garden is gold 🌱

This morning’s pleasant surprise at the mailbox flowers. There’s not many more of these left because they’re going to start migrating. 🥹 🌱 🦋 📷

Just saw these two beauties on the same flower. 🌱 🦋

My favorite mailbox visit just now. I could spend all day doing this. 🌱 🦋

A man who opened fire at a Target store parking lot in Texas shot randomly, killing a grandfather and his 4-year-old granddaughter, police said Tuesday.

A grass skipper butterfly (Atalopedes campestris) strikes a pose on my Mexican sunflower. 🌱

The Crape Myrtle is popping at my house. 🌱

Today’s mailbox visitors. My heart is so full. 🌱🦋📷

Go forth, young loofa. 🌱

I’ve picked potatoes from boxes and 5-gallon containers in my garden in May, June and July. They’re still going strong in August. 🌱

Went outside today and didn’t see any activity on my Mexican sunflowers. An hour later, two Zebra Swallowtails were chasing each other around them. So majestic. 🌱🦋📷

This big beauty was waiting for me this morning. 🌱

I have watermelon in 4 different areas of my garden. In one, the developing fruits have blossom end rot. All beds have new soil and are watered the same: not too much, not too little. I know it’s a calcium uptake problem. How can I remove the bad fruit and still see good fruit in the next month? 🌱

I’ve seen a ton of posts on social media in recent days about Monarch butterflies emerging from their cocoons. Lo and behold, I saw my first one of the summer today. This little guy was fast! 🌱 🦋 📷

The beauty of nightfall 🌱 📷

This beautiful butterfly was kind enough to sit still for a few minutes on my Mexican sunflower (Tithonia). My phone says it might be a Chlosyne harrisii, or Harris's checkerspot. 🌱 🦋

Made some homemade french fries tonight with Kennebec potatoes from the garden. I almost forgot to take the picture of the fries because the kids scarfed them down pretty quickly. 🌱 🥔 🍟

I grow luffa along an arbor every year just for fun. Finally starting to crank out the flowers. 🌱

A Texas family clung to life on their roof, capturing the terrifying flooding in photos and video. apnews.com/article/texa...

This evening’s garden snack 🌱🥕

BREAKING: Camp Mystic says it is mourning the loss of 27 campers and counselors following catastrophic Texas floods.

Death toll rises to at least 13 in Texas floods

Texas parents are frantically posting photos of their daughters and pleas for information as more than 20 campers from an all-girls summer camp remain missing after floods tore through the state's south-central region.

Yay, one of my Mexican sunflowers (Tithonia) started blooming today. It was worth the wait. 🌱 #flowers

A month ago one of my kids mowed over one of the flower beds because he didn’t know any better. Fortunately, it’s coming back. I knew it would. Gotta love Red Hot Pokers. 🌱

Mudslide along West Virginia highway strands thousands overnight for more than 8 hours apnews.com/article/west...

Today’s potato harvest for dinner 🌱😍 #gardening

A turtle rests on a curb after getting caught in street flooding during heavy rains Thursday in West Virginia. (Photo by me) 🌱📸 #nature #animals

Mary Lou Retton pleads no contest, fined $100 for DUI “What happened was completely unacceptable. I make no excuses.” apnews.com/article/mary...