Fall colors and packing -

Time is going quickly and I still have so much to attend to prior to flying

 away to New England for an Autumn break.

 The pots of tri-colored chrysanthemums have been lovely all week - a bargain

 at LIDL 2/$12.00. Hoping they will remain pretty until I return to deadhead

and encourage even more blooms for a while longer.

Yesterday Bob mowed the grass. Later I steadied the ladder while he

 cleared off the roof over the front porch where many twigs had been

 deposited by Hurricane Ian.  

We are always very careful when working with ladders of course!

This is all I have time for today. Picking and packing clothes for a cooler

 region of the east coast has to be done. We have enjoyed beautiful

warm weather here all week but on checking New Hampshire, Vermont

 and Maine it's already much cooler!

Hoping your Autumn weekend is fun and colorful.

September Garden Thoughts. . . . .

Fading flowers, trailing vines, fluffy seed heads, 

mystery weeds, new grass seed . . . . . . all part of 

the late Summer garden preparing for Autumn.

Working outside is still hard and tiring. Humidity and 

biting mosquitoes make gardening miserable. After an 

hour or so one feels like an old worn shoe, a rusted trowel, 

a broken hoe, a pile of clippings, and a trash barrel, 

all jumbled together by the compost heap.

The old quote comes to mind.

A garden is thing of beauty . . . and a job forever.

Now the beauty is fading, but it's still a small joy to 

behold in an early misty dawn, or the coolness of dusk.

I have to laugh to myself when people stop in the street, 

say how lovely the garden looks. I thank them profusely, 

but deep down feel somewhat guilty. I want to tell 

them not to look closely . . . I almost want to be like 

them, observing beauty from afar.