Fall is coming!

You wouldn't know it with the 103 degree temps this weekend but I can feel it! Fall is coming! Our temps should return to a semi normal range after this weekends scorcher. But it's not the weather that tells my bones that it is coming...it is the sudden urge to do SO much more in the garden. Durning the long dog days of summer the days tend to slither by by snake looking for it's lunch. Wating, it takes each day and wraps it in the slimy heat that although is not too moist it takes the breath right from your lungs. Fall begins like a hawk on the wind, gliding ever so gracefully, slowly, so thats it's mighty shadow is only fleeting at first and then as it circles over head and all around begins to tighten the noose on it's prey...the slithering summer snake. And a last, it swoops in and in an instant it scoops up what was left of the summer and wisps it away to it lair and consumes it with a ferocity that results in our sudden recognition that we must immidiatly cover the cooler and clean the chimmy for it is all fall. This is the time I can't stand NOT to be in the garden. Pulling weeds, collecting seeds, assesing how well the watermelons did here and the corn did there. Noting the companion planting and how they worked together. So much beauty and wonder exists in the growing of other living things. We all relish our children and the joy of thier learning the ins and outs of life but it's those of us who are out in the garden with a whole other family of plant babies, adolecents and plant adults that can truly understand the meaning of Fall. With fall come a bounty out of the garden like watching your child score his first home run in t-ball or seeing that amazing peice of art they have build with their own two hands and creativity! We plant these plants every season with such high hopes for thier survival and thriving. And now, when they are maturing and producing such wonder from the dirt of the earth we can be amazed all over again just like the first of the sprouts that come up. I don't know about you but I am completely surprised EVERY time those sprouts appear!HA! So It is with happy, joyus and garden busy soul that I welcome you all to Fall! Enjoy!