Garden Pic Wednesday: Autumn Sunglow

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Garden Pic today is a couple of nice shots of sun hitting various potted garden plants from October.

Chocolate Elephant Ear Aglow in Evening Sun




And the Sun hitting one of my Parsley on the patio just right


 

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