Close-Up and Still A Way to Go

I ran out this morning to "shop" for photos and caught a couple that tell you we had rain followed by fog. A full inch and a half of rain.  Grateful, grateful!  Below is a Scuppernong leaf, an old variety of grape, drinking in the dewdrops.

And below is a fuzzy caterpillar with red feet that was about two inches long.  It, too, was covered in dewdrops, but perhaps not as grateful as was I and the Scuppernong.

A technical note, here...I am taking a little time from posting my own blog, to explore some of the other blogs you have listed on yours.  When I first started blogging, I knew nothing about blog-manners and blog reciprocity.  I listed a few blogs I had enjoyed on my header page, but had not done much exploring. I still don't know how to become a "Follower" or if, since I already subscribe to your blogs, whether it's necessary to become a "Follower" or if that helps you or helps me or what...!

Anyway, I want to thank YOU for your explorations and additions of other interesting blog titles to your blogs.  I am gradually sampling, and taking time to enjoy many of them.  As fall comes on I hope I can occasionally take a keyboard stroll, now and again through at least some of the blogs you've listed.  I am inspired and delighted with the myriad selections you have offered.  

Finally, if I gave the impression that the growing and preserving season is somehow "over"...that's not true!  It's simply a shift change!!