Yesterday’s winds, today’s rain, and the smell that has been on the air tells me so. The asters blooming, the store displays burgeoning with mums (I bought two huge ones at Sam’s Club) also tell the undeniable story that summer has past. I still have tomatoes ripening on the vine, and they should continue to […]
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Gotta Run!
I spent the morning computer time finishing up a garden page- not just updated, but with new pictures and content. Since it is on a garden topic that becomes the post for today… and then I am going to go outside and do real gardening. I have a backlog of tasks to accomplish. Fragrance in […]
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 […]
3RD Season of the Gardening Year
It isn’t official, but for Ohioan gardeners the passing of Labor Day marked the end of our season of full tilt gardening, and we entered our autumn in feeling and attitude. In my area this part of the year is dry, but in 2008 it is a little drier than usual. We went for a […]
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 […]
