We have had frost warnings and forecasts which we knew would not hold true. But, alas, tonight is the night. It is almost 6PM here in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It is sunny, and the warm south borne rain which fell early in the day gave enough rise to suck in the northwest wind and clear skies which make my fingers cold as I type these words.

I thought I might transfer the double impatiens from the front flower bed to the rear of the house and gain a foot closer to the basement wall, thereby saving the most glorious planting of annuals ever in that bed for how many more days? Seems just yesterday, I set them, all of six inches tall and not as big around, a sixteen foot long row of white, red, orange and pink, which now is more broad than tall, full of blossoms with more petals than roses, and more buds than blossums.... for how many more days?