Fall - time to get the hands dirty!

I've started a big project,

and I've been working on it since last Sunday.

To give you just a brief peek for a small taste...

... and a promise to show off when it's done!

Since a few months now
I had not been taking care of my gardens...
I think I was not even noticing the weeds taking over everything!

But a couple days ago I did start noticing it... and remembered

how proud J always felt about my gardens.

So... Since then I've been working outside a little bit everyday.

Even with all the neglect I still have some flowers.

I took some pics to share with you:

While I was trimming down my English ivy

something crawling trough the green
took my breath away for a moment!

Ah ah! Gotcha ya!

You thought it was a baby snake, didn't you?, so did I!

Well, look closer...

I had never seen one of those...

... just the regular tiny weeny brownish slugs...

... but it's kinda pretty, isn't it?

Another find on my lawn... I don't know why

but those little blue gnomes (Smurfs...?)

always come to my mind every time I find one of these:

After weeding & mulching
now the front garden looks nice.

A small taste of Fall on my garden.
After all, tough here we still have 90 degrees,
one my favourite times of the year starts tonight!