The Mountain Thymes

 Cool morning temperatures that last longer allowing me to walk later, trees that shed their leaves early on the yoga deck, my walking into a large spider web in the early morning that wasn't there the day before, and deer devouring anything they can forage, plants that didn't appeal in the summer are my signs that fall is approaching. Yesterday I craved our homemade applesauce.  Talked to Cliff as I prepared the bag of honey crisps as he used to for the sauce.  Farmers Almanac is predicting a cooler wetter winter for North Carolina and the rest of the Southeast.  We won't know until it happens.  I feel like chocolate cake. You get three guess..................... Midnight snack.....hostas Tulsi.....holy basil. Makes a great fresh tea and is good for all ailments.  Deer never touch these plants and they smell sweet. Answer to the two sticks plant.  It's a blackberry bush that was overflowing and full this summer.  It even produced blackberries that I ate before the deer

 This morning I woke around 6 but stayed cuddled up under my down comforter another twenty minutes or so listening to relaxing music on my iPhone.  Took a quick shower to loosen my shoulders then returned the two HB feeders and the seed feeder to the back porch. I can see the seasonal changes beginning as the raccoon waits patiently for me to turn out the lights each night so it sneak up the porch steps, jump up on the rail, and drink all the nectar from both feeders then empty the seed feeder.  During the summer only the seed feeder came in each evening but as animals change their diet getting their bodies ready and storing fats and sugars for the winter they are eating everything. Yesterday while weed whacking near the garage I found one of my white wine bottles on the ground. It had to have been removed from the recycle bin and carried down back and around the side of the garage.  I have an alcoholic raccoon.While my breakfast porridge is cooking, I put little piles of sunflower see