October

…and all the goodbyes

I am a seasonal being, me in a summer is different from me in a winter and me in October is animal different entirely. Garden keeps me aware of seasonal changes, yearly changes, and lifelong changes. October is the month when biggest change of the season takes place - we get first frost, and it predicted tonight.

After I finish this newsletter and hit “send” I will go outside to say goodbye to my garden. I have a bucket of water waiting by the door, and my garden snips to cut all the flowers that survived heat, drought, and nearly freezing rain of last couple nights. It will give me another few precious days, maybe a week.

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

Poetry tastes so much better when one is sad.

I will say goodbye to my dahlias, still blooming bravely.

I will say goodbye to my tattered hydrangeas - they hated it this summer.

I will say goodbye to my fungus ridden zinnias, in a worst of years they don’t disappoint.

I already said goodbye to hummingbirds and I miss them terribly.

I will say goodbye to tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and too many other things that fed me many months.

Bok choi is invincible.

and now, hello unlimited time in my studio

Much love, until November, XOXO