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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Emerging from Winter
We’re enjoying the first prolonged stretch of warm weather. Earlier ones were a tease, because then it got cold again. Today is the first day that I haven’t turned up the heat as I got up, and we slept with a window open in the bedroom. There was a bunny, a small one, sniffing around my gardens out front – it kept its back to me, guilty no doubt because the minute my new bulbs start to sprout, he/she/they will be waiting. I was looking out back too, yesterday morning, and saw a possum emerging from the swampy area behind the house, what we call the “dell”. Admittedly, we watch a lot of UK television.
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The pollen is out in force this year. I noticed the other day, when I went out to fetch the newspaper and the front porch is coated with yellow powder. It’s a nice mix from the surrounding plants that causes me to sneeze uncontrollably. For those of my faithful readers that too suffer from spring allergies, my sympathies. With any luck, it will wash away soon with any passing showers. In the meantime, that glorious spring of stuffed up nose, itchy eyes, and sometimes even skin irritation are upon us.
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