"I'm just going out to water."

That's what I said I was going to do, at least. Yesterday was a perfect fall day to garden. Blue skies and temperatures in the low 60's is about as good as it gets for me to work outside. I really did plan to just water some of my newly planted things but continued to find more to do. Some of them I'd been putting off for awhile and was happy to get them checked off the list.

I cleaned out the window boxes and planted Pansies, although not these particular ones. This is 'Lemon Fizzleberry', it was too cute not to post a picture of. The light was too bright to get a good picture of the window box Pansies, I'll save them for another day.

Netted out the pond. The Pine and Cedar trees are dropping needles like crazy into it. Over the weekend I cleaned out the pump, another job I'd been putting off.

Got distracted by the flowers. Fuchsia magellanica growing by the pond still had lots of bees visiting it.

Divided and potted up Moonbeam Coreopsis, Pulmonaria and Linaria.

I found that the leaves left on the Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) are beginning to change colors while I was untangling Pine needles from the plants.

Weeded and swept the path, again...

Cleaned more pine needles from the flower beds,

and cleaned and filled the birdbaths.

And I even watered the plants that I originally went out to water!