Nature is still showing its flora and fauna in full color but gardeners know that frost is coming and are making a record now, in photos and in paint, of the current scene. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net.

Linda Lee Earl of northern Gloucester sends photos of fall beauty from her gardens, from left, monarch butterfly on tropical milkweed, purple aster, asters with blanket flower, and New Guinea impatiens.

Not all the pictures we get of nature are taken with a camera. This watercolor, “Fall Is in the Air,” was submitted by artist Page Strickland, who lives in the Powhatan Chimney subdivision.

Fall beauty at Ware Neck Produce, Gloucester; sent by Louise Witherspoon of Port Haywood.

Photos by Cheryl Battle, Bavon, who enjoys recording nature: from left, heron fishing in early morning, and a flock of turkeys.

Miniature Roses and Coxcomb are blooming nicely at the home of Martha Thompson Hudgins, Gloucester, bef...