The Month is October, the Year is 2022, and I Believe That Fall is Just Around the Corner

Of course, who knows what weather will be doing these days. It has been a hot summer, not only in beautiful Athens, Georgia but almost everywhere in the country. We were teased with cooler days and nights a week ago but, then it got hot again – but that’s what September does. However, I know that fall is coming because the box store sand garden centers are overflowing with fall mums. Like the Internet, if the box store tells me it is fall, then it must be so.

There is always something to look forward to in the garden, even though my mop-head hydrangeas are wilting and my hosta leaves are getting crispier by the day. However, my coffee cup and I are still walking around the garden in the cool of the morning and Susan and I are still sipping wine from the deck in the cool of the evening. We have enjoyed the views of the Georgia mountains and loved the time on the dock at a nearby lake, but home -heat, cold, warts and all - is where we are most content.