It’s that time of year once again. A nostalgia, a sense of melancholy. Remembrances of past glory. Yes, it’s time to start letting our summer plants, our garden experiments, the joyful blooms of the season, go – like rolling the credits at the end of a movie. It’s time to let the greenery turn brown and drop off. To clip off the dead stalks. To wait silently for the leaves to change color, which they will inevitably. And then they too will morph from bright colors to coppery browns before they’ll drop and become . . . . well, mulch.
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Winter is Back – with a Vengeance
Six plus inches of wet, heavy snow that started yesterday as rain, then to sleet, and now . . . . .well. Howling winds. The lights are flickering from time to time. Not exactly my expectation for the week after Easter, what with spring bulbs were coming up nicely and everything was starting to sprout. I’d bought some very nice daffodils bulbs, and they were at that expectant, pre-blossom stage. I ran out yesterday and covered them up before the wintery mix arrived, after running to the grocery store, as was everyone in the region, to buy some things to last us for a few days. And cancelled Her Ladyship’s appointment because there was no way we were going out. I didn’t even win the big lottery jackpot last night, which would have gone a long way toward mitigating the blustery, beastly weather.
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