I don’t know if I end up thinking how gorgeous the days are more in spring, summer or autumn, but I know I’ve been thinking this thought a lot during the past few weeks of this autumn. I happened upon an older post about the Kigo of Japanese Haiku which celebrated late summer and started […]
October
It’s Offical: A Killing Frost
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 […]
October’s End
It is time to copy the tips from the sidebar for posterity and get ready to post new garden tips for November and the fast approaching winter. I enjoyed my day trip to Old Man’s Cave this past month with the roadside pumpkin display and the long walk; now I am deciding what diversions to […]
The Transition Time
Autumn is always a time of transitioning for me… more than spring. I think of spring as the full flung advance on all things “garden”, while fall must be part inside work and part outside, and much of both are getting everything in readiness for wintertime. In between there are beautiful days where I think […]
October Selection of Poems
October AY, thou art welcome, heaven’s delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief And the year smiles as it draws near its death. Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like […]
October in Poem
October’s Bright Blue Weather O SUNS and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather; When loud the bumblebee makes haste, Belated, thriftless vagrant, And goldenrod is dying fast, And lanes with grapes are fragrant; When gentians roll their fingers tight To save […]
