Garden Photos
Yellow tomato... isn't it interesting? I planted five different colors this year. Both the purples haven't produced a single purple tomato. The pink has given off a couple, but the yellow has been my most prolific tomato of them all... out producing the three reds easily at every turn (although with only one yellow and three reds I have been using the more traditional color in the food most often).
Sunflowers. They are a joy every single year. I couldn't imagine why I wanted them in my first garden, but I got free red sunflower seeds and now, 5 years later, I just can't imagine my garden without a slew of these 7 ft tall beauties every summer.
This is my first Pineapple Sage flower. A couple years ago I decorated the Thanksgiving table with them. They are just stunning when they start to pop out... beautiful red trumpets. I always thought that these would attract butterflies, but alas, it blooms too late in the season. 
Garlic Chive flowers. Arn't they pretty.
And my best garden friend... the Mason Bee. They polinate 5 times more than the average honey bee and therefore they make my garden very happy.
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I think you have an imposter there. Either a Syrphid Fly, Drone Fly or a form of Bee Fly. This sit has good pictures http://www.pbase.com/lejun/bees_and_flys
A funny thing the Mason Bees here do a number on the cob buildings. We could call them Cob Bees!
Val
I think the bee imitators are as important to your garden if not more so. There are so many too, did you see how many look like bees? They have their protection with their disguise.
a couple questions for you, if you don't mind...
1) what kinds of veggies/plants need to be planted in the fall?
2) and how do you store your veggies? I have been wondering if some of my veggies even need to be in the veggie crisper of the refridgerator... mostly because it's too small to house all the veggies I love to eat in the summer/fall time. Next week is the last weekend for the Farmer's Market, so I might stock up on a few veggies.
HTH!
Oh and for fall planting, I have planted cilantro, kale, swiss chard, lettuce, mesclin greens, and peas. All of which should give some yeilds before the first frost and some of which will last all winter.
Val
Val