
Late summer blooms,

invite afternoon strolls,

in Riding Mountain National Park.

Flutters follow,

your fragrant footsteps.

Flowers rejoice,

in September sun.

We are home now but it is still, cheers to you from Riding Mountain National Park~
Late summer blooms,
invite afternoon strolls,
in Riding Mountain National Park.
Flutters follow,
your fragrant footsteps.
Flowers rejoice,
in September sun.
We are home now but it is still, cheers to you from Riding Mountain National Park~
Those are such beautiful and colourful photos! Lovely summer memories. 🙂
Cheers to you & thank you too Lynette <3
Stunning, often dazzling, colour
I feel the same about your garden Derrick, thank you my friend.
🙂
What a beautiful visit and nice way to view the summers end, Cindy 😀
Thank you Irene and enjoy your weekend my friend <3
Thank you Cindy, wish you a lovely weekend <3
<3 <3
Nature gives us its beauty with its flowers, its animals, its trees and you bring us those wonders with your photos that are a spectacle for the eyes. It’s like writing a poem full of music and color. Regards.
Oh, what a truly beautiful comment. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.
Yes, a beautiful end to summer with gorgeous flowers and blooms, butterflies too. Every season brings its own kind of beauty with opportunities and nature to enjoy the great outdoors and appreciate what God has given us.
Cindy, the above reply/comment is mine. I was having trouble logging into the WordPress and Gravatar site and had to update some things on my profile when I saw that my gravatar profile did not come up, So, sorry if you were confused or wondering who replied with this comment. It was me. 🙂 It did the same thing on one of the other recent posts you did when I commented and tried logging in.
Sounds like the WP gremlims are visiting you Joyce. You have my sincere sympathies <3
Beautiful thoughts. Thank you.
I could almost smell the blossoms, Cindy. xxx
I wish I could have including the fragrance with the post!
Beautiful words and images! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely to meet you and thank you for your thoughtful words.
Wow..how beautiful….thanks for sharing this beauty with us Cindy♥️🌼🌹👍💕😊
Thank you more for your kind appreciation <3
Welcome 💕😊
<3
Gorgeous!
Grazie <3
Beauty to uplift the heart and mind 🙂
You make me happy I posted Rosaliene <3
So wonderful😸Sunny Pawkisses for a Happy Weekend🐾😽💞
Visa versa 2UX2 <3
A beautiful reminder of summer. I just wish it could last all year!
I hear you <3
Ooh, your photos are stunning!
Ahhh, thank you Jaquie <3
Beautiful photos, Cindy. What is the background in photo #1?
It is an embroidered table runner in our cabin in Riding Mountain.
Love the colours and design!
Thanks so much! I’m happy do do.
Thank you for more BEAUTIFUL photos. I especially savor the butterfly images! I still can’t wrap my brain around how two tiny potato-chip-sized wings can carry these extraordinary creatures for hundred/thousands of miles…
Yes, I feel the same marvel at hummingbirds and their migration. They fly back and forth across The Gulf of Mexico each year some flying as far north as Canada. The monarch migrate here in November and this year I plan to be around to get their photos.
These are absolutely beautiful words with images. We are in the opposite season here in northern U.S.A. where is it is crisp and and maple trees are turning crimson. I have not yet been to Riding Mountain National Park. I will read about it.
Cheers,
Joe Scudder
Lovely to meet you and I envy you and your crimson colored trees.
Beautiful colorful pictures, so lovely to see butterflies around!
Seeing butterflies seems like assurance that your day is going beautifully <3
Sorry, I was confusing you with an artist who does street art in Chile. I have been to Manitoba and Alberta to downhill ski.
No problem. It is nice to meet you.
Cindy this is a stunning post — words and images. My morning needed this beautiful break. Hugs on the wing.
Hugs back to you Teagan & cheers too <3
These are just exquisite Cindy! Thank you for the wonderful reminder of what beauty there is in the world!
Aww, thank you more for your very thoughtful appreciation <3
Beautiful shots, Cindy! It is interesting to see pink Filipendula and Astilbe blooming there in fall, I associate them with June/July in my garden. Must be elevation?
Maybe latitude as the elevation wasn’t that great but we were quite far north.
Ah, that must be it.
Wonderful shots – as usual, Cindy!
Ahhh, thanks much Leya & have a wonderful weekend <3
You too, Cindy!
<3
What a beautiful place to be, Cindy. Lovely photos 🙂 🙂
Thank you Jo & thanks for stopping by <3
Astonishing photographs, Cindy!
Your kindness is much appreciated. Thank you!
Just what I needed on this gray day. Thank you, Cindy!
Your comment made me smile Tracy, so thank you <3
These gorgeous pix will keep summer alive even in the depth of winter. Beautiful!
Awww, thanks so much Donna. You make me happy I posted my friend <3
Lovely array of colours!
Thank you! How are you? I haven’t seen you for awhile. Heading over to your blog now….
This is an incredibly beautiful post, Cindy. Your photos are stunning! Thank you for bringing such beautiful scenes, especially for me as I am seeing how groups of violent protesters are destroying the beautiful city of Barcelona!
Oh no! Barcelona is such a magical and artistic city. I hope they protect the art…. all that gorgeous Gaudi. Our world is such a mess. I am sorry Francisco.
I know Cindy, I also hope they protect all the art, the public and private art…thank you!
What a beautiful place. And I was completely stopped by the first photo – just gorgeous!
Alison
Awww, thank you Alison. I am loving your China series and your stunning photos.
Wow. Beautiful. That first pic is quite something.
Cindy- I am in awe of the gorgeous blossoms and color variety. Nature inspires and soothes. Enjoy the weekend.
Mother Nature is the best soporific. Thank you Mary Ann <3
My pleasure, Cindy. Enjoy the weekend. oxox
<3 <3
oxox
<3
Beautiful….
Grazie <3
WOW! You have given colours a voice – I hear their voices singing in a choir.
Smiling….I think I hear them too Rebecca <3
Gorgeous photos Cindy, I especially adore the butterfly….
Witty Butterfly
singing butterfly
decrees, have my wings and fly
join me in the sky
I love your poem! Thank you Ivor & cheers~
I find your photography very interesting and inspiring Cindy 🤗
<3 <3
SPECTACULAR!!!!!
Grazie mille Resa <3
So wonderfully beautiful.
Awww, so kind.
🙂
Gorgeous. What is the pink bush?
It’s called filipendula and thank you my friend.
Beautiful flowers and butterflies. Frost has done in our flowers and chased our butterflies away.
Winter’s coming, but at least you’re not in GOT!
The light is bliss in your captures.
Merci beaucoup mon ami <3
What a wonderful way of presenting a colourful and cheerful farewell post to summer, Cindy! I like each and every photo, but especially the butterfly pictures. Have a great weekend!
You are very kind and most appreciated Peter. Happy weekend to you my friend.
Truly lovely, Cindy. Enjoy your September weekend at home.
It’s nice to be home. Thank you Sheila. You too my friend.
A beautiful place, for sure.
Hi Cindy. Enjoy the weekend.
Visa versa 2UX2!
Gorgeous! I especially love the butterfly!
Thank you, they just float in and share their beauty <3
Stunning! <3
I was just looking at the stunning art you and Resa cooperated on. You both are so talented and such awesome friends <3
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Thank you kind friend for your thoughtfulness <3
Lovely photos as always, Cindy. And yes, fall is in the air, probably much more so at Riding Mountain National park than in Southern Ca. –Curt
Exactly….It’s in the 40’s at night here, and 80 during the day….
Beautiful shots as always, my friend. Sending you a whole larva love…..♡₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡
Love & happy weekend back to you ♡₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡
♡(◒‿◒)♡
<3 ♡(◒‿◒)♡ <3
Those photos make me a little wistful for the summer sunshine and butterflies. It’s wet and warm now but the cold comes and goes. I could hang those photos on my wall and have summer all year long. Love them.
I hear you. I bet it is seriously cold now in Riding Mountain and the polar bears are now massing in Hudson Bay. Sigh….I would love to be back in Hudson Bay.
A very lovely set, Cindy.
A beautiful butterfly capture. 💮
Thanks my friend.
That National Park is a beautiful place, and a feast for the eyes.
Smiling….so happy you enjoyed!
schön, leider wahr, liebe Cindy, passe auf dich auf und genieße das Wochenende, Klaus
Vielen dank mein lieber Freund Klaus <3
super, alles gut
Du bist so ein sehr guter Freund und Mensch. Danke.
immer wieder gerne
<3 <3
Lovely place for an afternoon stroll. If only it were like that here instead of constant rain! 😉
I’ll trade you your rain for our heat. Rain would be heaven now here, it will be 90F tomorrow, and the fires are starting, this next week will be the danger time for burning. So your rain, send it please, and I will send you the sun, if only we could <3
Climate change…and this is only the beginning…🤔
California’s fires are just further evidence…..
🙁
Beautify summer sights you have. They are joy to see but a little sad for the reminder of soon cold winter is coming.
It is bittersweet, but winter has it beauty too. Hope you are well my friend <3
They may be late summer blooms, but they have to be the most beautiful! The colors are so wild and vibrant they are almost intoxicating… and what the photos have done for sure is made us look up Riding Mountain National Park, so we can be sure to visit it. Thank you for introducing the park to us!
Your comment made my <3 smile and you made me glad I posted. Thank you very much.
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Stunning photos from Cindy Knoke taken at Riding Mountain National Park.
Hugs & gratitude to you Patricia <3
So much joy and serenity in all these photos, Cindy. I especially love the butterflies and the last scenery! Cheers.
Cheers to you Halim & be well my friend.
A lovely autumn stroll through the fields and flowers. Welcome home Cindy.
Thank you for walking with me Brad. You make the experience better.
How sweet Cindy. The feeling is mutual.
<3
Wow! Thanks for this pictorial treat Cindy. Lovely shots.
Very thoughtful of you, thank you <3
You might want to see all the wonderful compliments about this post on my blog. 🙂 Everyone loves you.
Well, I love my awesome blogging community too, so we’re equal. And you? Visa versa 2uX2 <3 <3
Beautiful blooms n butterflies…
Merci beaucoup!
Beautiful September photos, Cindy. 🙂
Grazie my friend <3
Such stunning and colorful end-of-summer views at the park!😍
Very happy you enjoyed & thank you <3
I love how beautiful and vibrant everything is. Thank you for sharing a wonderful dose of pure joy!
<3 Alana
Thank you for making my <3 smile.
Oh, the shapes and colors!
I am lucky to get you meet you here Liz <3
Likewise, Cindy!
<3 <3
Birds and butterflies in Paradise!
And all I need here to make it perfect is to eat a meal cooked by you <3
Ah, you still have shades of color, where we have shades of gold-to-brown. I did see a Monarch in our garden yesterday, but it should be heading your way soon on the back end of a low with southerly breezes. We got two garden beds cleaned up yesterday (and I found about a ten pumpkins playing hide-and-seek in a field of goldenrod) and will get them under a blanket of mulch before winter. – Oscar
I think I would love your place Oscar. You are a smart person and you are right, the Monarchs are coming here in their annual migration and should arrive in early November. I see them at The Holler, but not enmass, because I have never timed it right to go where they are. This time I am determined to be there, and time it right. They are floating, thousand mile flying, marvels of God!
Be well my friend.
I have sent he colonies wintering over in Santa Cruz and Pacific Grove areas in the past. Those host thousands at a time, whereas our garden as a few scattered here and there. I keep spreading milkweed seeds every year, giving them more habitats (shhhhh, don’t tell my neighbors where all their milkweed it coming from… they just think its nature sowing the seeds).
Good for you! They definitely do respond to a butterfly friendly garden.
Beautiful photos – Each season is special, but I love those days of late summer and early fall.
Yes, I do too <3
Gorgeous photos! Late summer/early fall are great times of year, they even have a smell about them that I love.
Yes. It’s true. Each season has it’s own distinctive sensory inputs which become imprinted on our subconscious. I know when fall is here because because my senses tell me. Thank you Josh & be well.
Simply beautiful with rich colors. I bet the smell is great.
Thank you Beverly, and yes it smells heavenly like nature and flowers. Cheers to you my friend~
❤🙂
Beautiful September photos! Love how the light is different in various parts of the country.
Light changes everything doesn’t it. Cheers to you my friend and thank you!
So lovely, Cindy!
Love to you Ally.
Thank you Cindy, same to you. xxx
<3 <3
Beautiful!
Grazie mille <3
Such a good catch of the late summer light, Cindy. Loved the fluffy pink flowers – whatever they are!
Love to you my friend <3
Hugs right back, Cindy!
<3
Really gorgeous! 😍
Thank you.
It’s nice to get away, but it’s nice to get back home, right, Cindy? Lovely photos here — rather sad that we’ll be seeing snow before too much longer though!
Yes, it is good to be home, but this exact week, this year, is the week we wait for fires. This is the hottest it gets here before winter comes. I would love some of your snow, and you might love some of my sun. This is the way it always is with us humans.
Oh, we don’t have snow yet!!! We have gorgeous Fall weather, cool and sunny. The snows, I hope, won’t arrive until December. I hate that you’re battling fires — maybe a rain dance is in order??
Yes please for the rain dance! Your fall sounds wonderful. I am heading up to where the leaves are still turning soon….I love the fall <3
Gorgeous as always. My visits here never disappoint. Xo
Your visits here make me happy. Thank you.
Oh, what a great joy it was to see your beautiful photos! Thank you.
Have a wonderful.
Your incredibly kind comment is a bigger joy to me. Thank you and be well.
Your pictures are delightful Cindy and the colours are vivid and entrancing, a beautiful post.
Your thoughtfulness touches my <3. Cheers to you & thank you too!
wunderschön, möge dir heute alles gelingen, Klaus
Danke, dass du so ein wunderbarer Freund bist! <3
I especially like the butterfly photo, my wife would melt!
Awww, I <3 people who love 🦋🦋!
Absolutely breath-taking. You’re a wonderful photographer. You capture the beauty and colors perfectly.
Awww, I love my very kind (and creative) blogging friends. Thanks much & be well <3
What vibrancy! Thanks for sharing, Cindy.
Thank you more for your kind appreciation & cheers Pam <3
❤️
Your passion always shines through your images..it is always such a pleasure to view them they never disappoint, Cindy 🙂 x
Your kindness shines through Carol. Thank you my friend for your thoughtfulness & cheers to you <3
Gorgeous place, gorgeous photos. I especially like the feasting butterflies.
Aren’t they gorgeous creatures. Thank you.
I’m late to the party. Lovely photos as per. 💕😉
Thanks & cheers to you my friend <3
What a lovely time. I love taking pictures of butterflies, they are so graceful.
They are special gifts <3
The way you view + photograph the world is inspiring.
Your thoughtful comment touched my heart. Thank you.
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How wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
All very good photos as always, Cindy. Thank you for sharing the beauty.
Thank you for your kind appreciation Isabel.
Magnificent, Cindy.
We have artists in this world, like you Robert, who make the world better for all of us <3
I’m honored you think so, Cindy. I would say you are one of them too. 🙂
Love to you Rob.
🙂
So gorgeous and vibrant photos! <3
Thank you, much appreciated <3
Glorious! I had to look at that first picture a long time before I figured out there was textile art putting the flowers to shame. So vivid! And that swallowtail. All lovely, as always.
Wow! WOW!! These are among your best, Cindy. Thank you!
Thank you more for such a thoughtful comment.
You are most welcome, Cindy.
<3
Hard to beat this beauty.
Love and beauty to you my friend.
Very lovely 🙂
Grazie mille.
Lovely when everything is covered in snow here. An early winter for us in Wisconsin.
I hear cold weather has come to the east coast. We just left Death Valley where the temps were mid 70’s to return to The Holler where it is actually hotter. 81F today which is very odd for November 7. Stay warm.
WOW.
Thank you! They are <3
Your pictures just keep getting more amazing! ❤
How beautiful!
In every way <3