It's my birthday this month. You know you're getting old when you completely forget and someone else has to remind you! Or when you realise that it's time for a new monthly thread already...

Sculpture on display at the NC Botanical Gardens

Speaking of botanicals... this is today's batch of tomatoes; I'll probably get one more 'basket' of fruit from this plant but then I think it will be done. I still have one cherry tomato plant which is covered in spray after spray of fruit but that may end up as chutney.

Oh leave the cherry tomatoes on the vine! Birds and squirrels love them. I have fun watching them eat mine.

Pfft! That squirrel has no chance, it's a grey, an import, vermin... and his great-grand-daddy once set up home in my loft which is not.a.good.idea. The birds can have what's left over in the hanging baskets, which isn't much.

Anyway, I like green tomato chutney and I have the cooking apples all ready to go. The fate of those tomatoes lies between me, a chopping board, and some jam jars.

A lighthouse by the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois.

I'll do a proper bunny birthday post later.

It has been raining for days so here are some dripping cherry tomatoes waiting for an Indian summer.

Train overpass done in sepia tone.

We've just finished the last of my mum's cherry tomatoes, four plants this year. A pub just south of Bedford.

Obviously, Katie is over stressed by the pandemic.

Some fall colors

3 gallon betta tank

Our Persian Snowy used to lie on his back like that. Victor the tabby doesn't.

One of my favourite shots this year, Steventon End in Cambridgeshire.

That is a great photo!

Thanks DireWolf. The sky and grass were just perfect in combination. A thatched cottage on the way to Haverhill.

Tesco in Haverhill closed on a Sunday evening.

Here's a combined trivia question. I found this sign today in Nuneaton, normally the national old directions had an arrow at the end, but before the 50s the ones including the road number didn't. I wonder if this was the equivalent version, it's certainly old enough.

A suburban road in Loughton, Essex

A country pub in Hertfordshire

Genuine Tudor houses in the same area.

There's no escape for this bee caught in a pitcher plant at the NC botanical garden.

A view in Stevenage new town, one of quite a few on the borders north of London.

You can't get enough of my local wild flowers, they change every month.

The local school next to the park in Kingsbury.

Oh, Ms. Flopsy .....

Were you kidnapped on Halloween?

Yes but they let me go because I was armed with cider vinegar all ready to make chutney and no one wants to get sprayed with that stuff.