Walking Cookie up and down my beautiful little lane, I noticed the first horse chestnuts lying in the road, in their spiky, lime-green skins. The days have cooled down; the nights are downright chilly. The garden is still chalkfull of various blooming plants: the lantern-like fuschias, the burnt orange mums, pink and orange roses, the bright green orb-shaped leaves and pumpkin orange nasturtiums, frothy pink heads of sedum, and so many more.
I sit for hours on the sun-drenched deck, reading and napping. Recovering from my surgery in the glow of that lovely garden. Cookie and Biscuit nap nearby. My favorite squirrel is playing clown for me in the trees, sometimes scolding the neighbor's dog for getting too uppity. Fall is here. She snuck in with the autumnal equinox on Sept 22nd. I wasn't quite ready for her, I thought. But Summer could be harsh and hot, and I welcomed lovely Autumn.
Ross goes back to school today. He just spent the last days of his summer with his sister in Japan, and arrived, jet-lagged, this morning. We send him off and settle ourselves in to a quiet fall, when we will pull everything together for a joyous early-winter, when the kids and Christmas will burst upon us and exhaust and delight us.
Welcome, Lady Autumn...
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