Invasion……

We flip the calendar in a few days and it will be NOVEMBER. It's getting cooler. Most of the leaves are on the ground and color is fading in the ones remaining on the trees. We have had a run of warmer days, but you can tell that fall weather is just around the corner. Time to unpack the sweaters and find gloves.

One remnant of the season is now landing on our little deck….and making it's way into the condo. Over the summer we had "invasions" of spiders with webs forming everywhere. We had a few weeks in September when we sat, fascinated, and watched huge dragonflies zipping back and forth through the air. And now it's ladybugs…..they are slowly crawling everywhere. Up the wall outside, on the base of our wind vane….on the windows and in on the carpet. Kind of cute and they don't seem to do any harm, although I'm not sure if these are the good kind of red lady bugs from my childhood or the more problematic ones that might "bite"??

Over the years we've lived in some old houses….and fall always meant that critters were trying to join us to avoid winter. There were the mice and shrews at the farmhouse in Nashotah, the bats in the house in Freeport. the wolf spider in New Jersey and the possum in the house in New Castle, Delaware.

I guess if I have to shoo anything out this fall….I choose ladybugs.