A Touch of Fall

[digitS']

After 2pm and still not 60f. . . Showers this morning, including just moments before I arrived at the little veggie garden:

The water from the faucet is warmer than after it has been in a bucket for 30 minutes. Sunbreaks seem to add no warmth.

The magenta seeds of purple orache matches the changing color of brush up on the hillside. In the bed with the the flowering orache is the celeriac (celery root). I am ready for some of that to go with the potatoes harvested earlier in the season. The plants have been bulbing up nicely .

It is fall.

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Yep, I can tell that fall is in the air. The shadows are longer, my veggies are slowing down. I'm starting to clear a bed for my garlic that goes in Oct. 15.

Fall is my favorite time of the year. That's why I got married in October.

Mary

 

[Smart Red]

That is one of those four letter words that I could do without. I love fall, but I am not enamored of the long, cold, dark season that follows all too quickly and leaves so very, very slowly in the spring.

But. . . yes, I fear fall is in the air here in south-est, central-est Wisconsin as it is in your area. Leaves are turning, day breaks later - well after breakfast - and dusk arrives before dessert. May we all be blessed with a long, pleasant autumn. As even the lowly ant knows, this is the time for working, storing, preserving, and preparing for the cold.

 

[thistlebloom]

Steve! That is such a pretty picture! I just love the colors and the trees in the background.

Yep summer is waving goodbye...started work in the rain today, so it's back to wet jeans and soggy boots and raincoats dripping more water onto even wetter jeans. *sigh*
But I think next week is supposed to be pretty nice, so maybe we'll get an extended warm fall.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Yup - got everything i could harvest out of the garden tonight, except the cabbage. They say down to 32 tonight!!!

 

[journey11]

Now that is a tranquil scene. And everything looks so healthy for this late in the game! Usually my squash have gone to pot and the weeds have taken over by fall. You sure run a tight ship.

 

[digitS']

Thank you but it is mostly the angle of the camera .

The squash in the foreground was what was planted in July, anticipating that the May plants would "go to pot." Some of those plants are back by the spruce. Fortunately (or otherwise), they didn't fall victim to the mildew. Right now, I've got a lot of summer squash!

What I'd hoped to show when I snapped the picture was the celery root. My thought was that it is such an incredibly homely vegetable that one can't possibly promote its use showing the root itself! Compared to celery root, a turnip is a beauty queen!

Still, the plants look so nice and green right now. Unfortunately (or otherwise), they are kind of overshadowed by the squash .

Heather, I'm sorry! Get it while the getting's good! I guess it is time for you to lift your eyes from the garden to that incredible Montana scenery around you . . .

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Even tho things are still pretty green around here, the foliage is starting to thin out. You can see through our old elm tree's canopy, where in July, it was too thick to see the sky through.
And the insect sounds are different. I don't know if it is locusts or cicadas or what, but they just sound different on a sunny fall day than they sound in summer. And the crows are starting to make more noise.

I love Fall, but it makes me melancholy and restless in a way that no other season or event can. I have always said that if ever I were to just up and leave; just pack a bag and convert my assets to cash and drive away into the sunset, it would be in the Fall. In times of my life when I have been unhappy, just "up and leaving" seemed to be a real possibility. Now, I am older, and more content, and also, with some years behind me, I think I am more pragmatic about life's ups and downs. I don't get hurt as easily, and don't really feel there is a better life for me somewhere............out there........

In a way, this realization is kind of sad in itself, as the bittersweet angst of youth has long left, but in a more practical way, being content is easier on the nerves and pocketbook. :/

 

[digitS']

Contentment. Yes, it is one of the ingredients for my recipe to gain winter weight. And, I don't like cold weather. Oh, freshly fallen snow is beautiful - through a window!

It may take all the lessons of life to learn this contentment you write of, So Lucky. Youth know nothing of it!

I once "up and left!" It was November 1st - autumn - and the 1st snow was falling. "You think you are leaving me??? Well - I'm gone!" And, off I went!

The inevitable phone call occurred about 90 miles away. "Are you sure this is IT?" Yep, she was sure. I was 500 miles away before she crossed the border.

So, when people have asked, "Steve, what happened to end your first marriage?" I have an honest answer, "She threw me out."

Steve

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

That is one of those four letter words that I could do without.

Does one of those other four letter words happen to be... snow! Yes, I wish summer would last longer...