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"As Autumn ages, it finds itself waking up each morning in a bit of a fog, with stiff joints that take until midday to limber up when the brilliant sunshine finally burns away the fog." Click on image below to go to Adobe Spark post and see it full size. There's lots of Autumn color in this post, and all you have to do is click on the pictures to read it and see the full-size images. Have you read As the River Runs? Lots of beautiful photos in that one too. I've been creating Rural's blog posts in Adobe Spark for a while now, it's a wonderful way to share those larger images and the layout is so much easier for you to read.  They're also fun to create! Please let me know what you think by clicking on the little heart at the end of the Adobe Post, leaving a comment, or sharing this online.  A little Rural love goes a long way, thanks so much. Jen @ Rural 

I haven't been in years. But when one of Nature's most amazing events takes place in so nearby I couldn't miss it. It's the dominant year at the Adams River Salmon Run in Chase, BC and what a spectacular sight it was. Click on either image to read the full blog post via Adobe Spark. If you liked what you've read, please consider sharing this post, leaving a comment, or even clicking on that little heart at the end of the Adobe Spark post, it all helps spread a little Rural Love, thanks so much! Jen @ Rural

Autumn is about to show... ...us how beautiful it is to let go...just look at the leaves..... It's been a tough week for us, we've had to let our beloved cat Bootsie go...and there's more news about Rural that you should read. Rural's blog posts are created in Adobe Spark, please click on the image below to visit them. Jen @ Rural CLICK HERE TO SEE BLOG POST:

The light is low now, slanting, with its golden fingers raking through the yet to turn color leaves..... Click on the image below to read blog post. Thanks for visiting, if you liked this post please feel free to share the link below...Jen@ RURAL  https://spark.adobe.com/page/amEVzHQ7zfo3L/

"Free Plants" It took little more than a handwritten sign made with a piece of cardboard from a cat litter box, haphazardly taped with black electric tape onto a bamboo stake and poked into the grass on the front lawn..... I'm trying out a new format and it has a cleaner easier to read page layout via Adobe Spark posts, please leave a comment and let me know what you think. Jen @ Rural To read: click on the image below....

Summer has been allowing Autumn to shine through the cracks. It's an unsettling feeling to have cold feet and to have to rummage through the drawer for heavier socks.  To be throwing on an extra layer in the evening, or turning on the heat in the morning. We live in the Okanagan where it's usually hot well into September, falling asleep to the sounds of crickets seeping into the open windows and soothed by a melodic frog chorus that drifts across the fields. But lately the windows are nearly closed, the floors are cold, and the crickets silenced. Falling into it all Leaves have started to fall from the maple that lives in the side garden, it's always the first to adapt to the seasonal change, and the fluffy limelight hydrangea blossoms are showing pink tinges on their petals. The yellow flowers of the Black Eyed Susans glow as the sun goes down, shimmering with caramel colored butterflies desperate for one last drink.  But Stil...

Want to take a wander through a late summer Okanagan garden, then please click on the link below. It will open up the Adobe Spark post that I created to share images of the blossoms that are gracing my garden right now. bit.ly/RuralSummer