I was eagerly waiting for October already at the beginning of September this autumn. – I was just so ready for everything autumnal; for colourful leaves, and… no leaves at all, dark evenings, campfires, cold nights, (campfires), the cool, crisp air on a sunny autumn day, raking, steaming hot coffee, tea, hot chocolate, glögi… outside in the crisp air, gloves, scarves and knit hats or pipos as we call knit hats in Finnish, I love the Finnish word pipo – it’s just perfect for the item. 🙂 And I was ready to start creating our dream home, here, in our home. – About this project more later, and some pics, too, when anything is ready… ;D
![october](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05211-1024x768.jpg)
October 1st. I tried to make a flower crown with the natural spring and summer flowers that still were blooming in our garden, there were not that many of them anymore… 🙂 After taking this pic 12 swans flew over me, honking as they went.
![Norway Maple](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05215-1024x768.jpg)
October 2nd, pic above and pic below. A foggy morning. In the pic above our big Norway Maple.
![October](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05218-1024x768.jpg)
This was at around 10 AM and after a moment it started to clear up… and all of a sudden the sun was shining in the clear blue sky!
![rubber boots](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05231-1024x768.jpg)
Oh my… Oh, my new rubber boots! And the old ones, too! 😀 I took this pic as I was wearing my new rubber boots for the first time on Thursday last week. I just finally had to buy new rubber boots as my old ones had been leaking, both of them, already for over a year, now they are almost completely cracked – I’ve been storing them with care, but I’ve been wearing them A LOT here in countryside, even in sunny weather, because they are so comfortable. 🙂
The next eight pics are from Friday last week.
![Norway Maple](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05296-1024x768.jpg)
Our Norway Maple in sunshine.
![October](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05311-1024x768.jpg)
![sunflower](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05306-1024x768.jpg)
Whatever happened to our sunflowers? Well, our biggest sunflower for this year is in the pic above… and I love it! 😀 And the tiny spider was feeling the same way! Okay, this year we know that the pre-growing of sunflowers has to be started earlier. 🙂
![unknown flower](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05317-1024x768.jpg)
And these… I still don’t remember what these flowers are called. They are summer flowers grown from seed in summer. Very tough flowers – they are still there in our garden today – cosmos flowers already got frostbitten, badly. EDIT: This flower is clarkia or godetia, silkkikukka in Finnish. Thanks for the answer, A! 🙂
![marigold, calendula](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05320-1024x768.jpg)
Pot marigolds or calendulas are sturdy autumn flowers as well. Still there.
![October](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05324-1024x768.jpg)
In our backyard, a smaller Norway Maple and its friends: three pine trees, a rowan and two junipers.
![Kauttuankoski](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05326-1024x768.jpg)
On a bridge above the Kauttuankoski rapids, going for a walk, at around 7 PM, it was about to get dark soon.
![October](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05327-1024x768.jpg)
The bridge down there, in the pic above. The lamp posts were already lit. And the lovely scent of dry leaves around everywhere…
![October](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05371.jpg)
In our front yard today. Who’s raking? – Me! When the time is right. 😉
![strawflower](https://www.owlnature.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC05369-1024x768.jpg)
And the strawflowers are still standing there with their rustling petals today!
-Leena