Bobert, will definitely pm you. Probably tommorrow.

Thanks for checking in Joybell. I really enjoy hearing about both your opposite season and your flora and fauna.

Actually, I really enjoy reading about everyone's gardens and observations. Thanks for refreshing this SRS.


Worked late tonight. Should now be working on closing out the books, but I'm just too fried. Went out a little while to stand in the garden. Sometimes I forget to really look at and enjoy my fall garden. As I look, I start planning changes for spring. So I put myself in the present and just looked.

A couple of blooms opened on the Nippon Daisies today. What great and carefree fall bloomers those little shrubs are. They cover themselves in white daisies with yellow eyes. Their only drawback, and it is a big one, is they have a strong and unpleasant odor. The larkspur, ammi, phlox drummondii, blue lace flower,nigella and bachelor buttons are all waiting to be sown. Where in the world am I going to squeeze more plants! This fall, I REALLY AM going to get all of the dahlias labelled so I can watch for sports.

Our elderly neighbor fell and broke her arm two weeks ago. Yesterday my 10 year old son and my spouse cut flowers and took them over to her. My son arranged the flowers and was so proud of them he took me over to the neighbor's house when I got home to see them. He had chosen his cuts carefully and had made a really lovely vase arrangement for her. His experience of both the garden and of wild areas had very clearly informed his eye. It evoked in me the power of the natural world in general, of digging in the dirt, and working with plants, observing the bugs, birds and small four-leggeds who make a garden their home.

Our family is very lucky to have such safe and bountiful lives. It is good to remember that.

Janie