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~
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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.
https://youtu.be/nXbEFTv9zr0
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