Beautiful, Sunny, Crisp...November 1st

Linking to Reality Shot Thursday with Claudia of Mockingbird Hill Cottage.

My reality is cleaning up the yard in preparation for winter - mulching, using my mulching/mower to chop up the millions of leaves ... I love gardening and this is a great part of preparation for spring planting. Living near the sea sure helps with the 'black gold' of rotted seaweed.

1928 reprint Lee Valley

Still  has berries not enough sun this year

Oak tree in memorial garden

Today's project getting leaves from neighbors  back yard

5 cart loads

Old seaweed waiting for the rain to wash the salt away before it goes on the garden

Mowed leaves

Bare trees

Buckets of Black Gold!

Old Spruce love the texture

I always think of the past season and of tying up loose ends working on shutting the outside taps, putting garden and tools to bed. Working on bring some firewood close to the house for the snowy days ahead. I like to gather material for making compost always on the look out for free or near free ingredients. Living on the coast seaweed is one of the blessings, maple leaves another. In the past I have used spoiled hay, fruit, vegetables plants, grass clippings and always peat moss. At one time I was big on fish compost it was too expensive for my taste. For a number of years I have had Red Wrigglers for worm castings I feed them household compost, leaves and such....