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The big purple glass bowl is more than halfway filled with tomatoes! Lots of the weird-looking yellow teardrop ones too. Apparently the heat and rain were just right, as we had a ton of them just come ripe all at once.

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A blossom of Canadian thistle. It's classed as a noxious weed, but still I think it's lovely to look at.

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Cropduster dude came around, apparently spraying for bugs. I thought at first that it was something to do with the air show planned for Saturday, but he was just spraying.

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A lovely jade-coloured chrysalis. I *think* it's going to be a Monarch butterfly. We'll find out for sure in a few days.

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Some sort of little berries. These are growing everywhere this year. In the background is a solitary yew berry.

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So, summer dwindles to its close. In many respects, it was a rotten summer. I didn't get to attend a single fair, not even the State Fairs. No fur cons, no Egg Festival Parade, and I even had to miss the Indianapolis Five Hundred :P

On the good side, though, I saw vast amounts of baby birds, and indirectly helped their parents to raise them. There are still butterflies, and weird and beautiful plants to enjoy. I had a baby Raccoon come in the yard. And the lunatic in the biplane blasting past 25 feet over my head :)

And there's a few weeks left yet.