October 30: Before the First Freeze by daisymiller

October 30: Before the First Freeze

Today, I went on my annual "before the first freeze" photo walk. I go on this walk on the day of the first freeze of the day before the first freeze. I concentrate on taking picturs of the flowers before they get killed by the freeze. A freeze warning has been issued for Friday 10p.m. until 9a.m. on Saturday. I am busy tomorrow, so I decided to go on my annual photo walk today. Each year, I select a local location that has lots of flowers. I selected to visit my favorite city park's gardens for today's photo walk. This photo is of the gazebo between the rose garden and the perennial garden.

When I arrived at the park, there were a few blue patches of sky showing through the clouds. By the time I left the park, it was beginning to rain. The weather changes very quickly in the Autumn!
Just wondering where you are because we have the same freeze warning times. In fact, went out and undid water hoses today so we wouldn't forget tomorrow! Such a lovely gazebo and those roses. Have a rose bush against the chimney that I'm hoping does ok with this first real frost.
October 31st, 2014  
A gorgeous shot and an interesting idea of your pre frost walk --Lovely Autumnal colours in the trees --once the rfost has come --they all will soon come down !
October 31st, 2014  
I remember this pretty gazebo from some of your previous shots. It's so sad to know the flowers may be gone by Sunday, but at least you'll have this nice shot to remember them by!
October 31st, 2014  
@milaniet I live in central Missouri. Where do you live?
October 31st, 2014  
Such a colorful image. I can see this one on a calendar. So pretty.
October 31st, 2014  
What a great tradition every year and this beautiful image portrays it.
October 31st, 2014  
Fantastic! Great tradition and wonderful architecture. Fav
October 31st, 2014  
@daisymiller I'm in western Arkansas about an hour south of Fayetteville - guess that's why are forecasts are similar.
October 31st, 2014  
Lovely color and compositon
October 31st, 2014  
Gorgeous.
October 31st, 2014  
Lovely capture Daisy.
October 31st, 2014  
Lovely! What a beautiful scene!
October 31st, 2014  
A lovely beautiful place and a great capture of it. Beautiful Autumn colors
October 31st, 2014  
What a pretty place, lovely autumnal colour which works so well with the white gazebo.
October 31st, 2014  
A lovely capture - freeze warning in TN too - the plants are in the garage.
November 1st, 2014  
@beryl @olivetreeann Thank you for your comments. We did have a hard freeze last night. Many of the leaves have now fallen.
November 2nd, 2014  
@denisedaly Thank you. I make greeting and note cards from some of my photos. thank you for recommending this one for a calendar photo.
November 2nd, 2014  
@deu49097 Thanks. This tradition is my way of saying good bye to summer.
November 2nd, 2014  
@golder365mjsmith Thank you so much!
November 2nd, 2014  
@nanm @la_photographic @tonygig @mzzhope @pyrrhula @paulaw Thank you for your wonderful comments.
November 2nd, 2014  
@linnypinny Thank you! It did freeze last night. My houseplants are safely inside the garage too.
November 2nd, 2014  
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