It's over

The last of the dahlias popped up & open yesterday and over the weekend--like lighted orbs they seemed to be saying 'wait! don't forget about us!' Right before a long winter sets in for us we are having an unbelieveable HOT indian summer.  It's a little TOO warm for my liking--normaly I love indian summer because it's like mother nature letting us out for one more recess before the big test. I'm not looking at it that way this year though, at least I'm trying not to.  I intend to be in the garden all winter this year--since I am blessed to live in a zone where we don't really get to much of a hard freeze.  Just enough to let the peonies, lilacs and forsythia wallow in the ice to store up some bloom--just barely.

In our warm snap, I have planted lots of cool weather veggie seeds with my youngest daughter like baby mescluns, radish, lettuces, bok choy, and chinese cabbage.  YUM.  I am hoping our weather cools so these babes get happy.  I have lately been inspired by a book I'm reading by Barbara Kingsolver- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.  I am almost finished with the book, and I feel like this book has had such a profound enfluence on me, and the way I live my life.  I have truly enjoyed it and I feel compelled to read the entire book aloud to my family.  Check it out--very inspiring.