Yes, the annuals are gone, the garden is looking brown, and I left a forgotten houseplant pot outside- now a mushy brown and deflated remnant of itself. I hate when I do that… but I think I do almost on purpose as a reminder that everything is imperfect. Of course, being me, I wouldn’t have […]
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Thoughts for an Autumn Day
..and a few pictures from my garden…. Isn’t it just the most exhilarating thing to be alive in this golden autumn, while flower borders are still rich and full of bloom as they can be, and be able to bridge the thought of a flowerless winter by planning and scheming and dreaming of the spring […]
Can You Feel It? Fall!
theplowman.org Today the breeze blew in an unmistakable feeling of fall. It is still hot, it is still humid, but there is something about the scent of air and the feeling in the atmosphere that speaks of autumn. The breezes are brisker, the grass begins to green again for its brief fall interim of a […]
An Indian Summer Thanksgiving
The weather throughout this season has been so mild and with an end of surprising color. I see again why I planted goldflame spirea and even the maples in the field gave forth a deep oranged-yellow and long lasting display. I think we are often more thankful when taken by surprise with the gifts of […]
Indian Summer
The weatherman tells me I can expect an end to the lovely Indian Summer we have had. Is it coincidental that it comes over the Thanksgiving holiday and remains just almost until the end of this November? Is that how the first Thanksgiving was enjoyed? With unexpected warmth, and delicious promises that held no inkling […]
Autumn Thoughts
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scatter.Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson winter is an etching,spring a watercolor,summer an oil painting,and autumn a mosaic of them all.~Stanley Horowitz Everyone […]
