It looks like I will be facilitating a sing around at the Getaway on nature/gardens etc. Do any of you have favorites that you might suggest for the sing around? I wish I thought I could get through Stephanie Davis' "Talkin' Harvest Time Blues." Some one turned me on to this on another of our gardening threads. Maybe it was Walking Eagle. I have neither the memory nor the wind for that one.

Fall is very gently easing in here, with gradual drops in temperature. It is getting a wee bit dry. A couple of decent rains before first frost would be nice. Here in the "southern part of heaven" we tend to have long, beautiful, gentle falls and springs. It is in these two seasons that we have those famous "Carolina Blue" skies. It is so different from the Appalachian plateau, in the part of West Virginia from where I come. There, clouds and moisture back up against the eastern and southern mountains, so it is often humid, cloudy and gray from late fall until early spring. When I get homesick, which I often do, even after almost 20 years here, I remind myself of those dank, dark winters.

Guy--you may know this already--the jewellweed is the antidote for poison ivy.

Janie