Wasn't the season supposed to change about now? Isn't it supposed to be, like, cooler or something? Here are a few tips for recognizing autumn, when the weather refuses to cooperate:
- Pumpkins and firewood for sale at farmer's market
- church sign bizarrely advertising "harvest festival"
- Have moved the wool skirts and tights to the front of the closet, even though it's 92 degrees out
- Every store crammed with Halloween decorations
- Strange compulsion to buy straw and stack it in front yard
- It's late September, for chrissakes. Hurry up and get cold already!
my horticulturalist friend tells me i should still wait a few weeks before doing any fall planting (in hopes of more rain + cooler weather). do you agree?
gardening confuses me.
i need to mulch the beds that have had black plastic on them all summer, then plant some nifty things in them. i'll need your advice on the city's mulch, i think.
sorry to comandeer your comments with my personal gardening dilemma. ;-)
check out Waverly Fitzgerald's "School of the Seasons" site and newsletter which posts signs of the season from people around the country. It's all about living in rhythm with the natural seasons. www.schooloftheseasons.com