"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands........" 1 Thessalonians 4:11

Monday, August 26, 2013

The days have been very hot...............yet I can feel the change in the air as the breeze blows across the prairie............

I can feel fall is on it's way. I cant explain this feeling, no matter how many words I try to write down about it..............
it's like trying to describe the colors in the morning sunrise to someone who cannot see and has never seen color before.............but I know that many of you probably know what I am talking about and have felt this same "feel in the air".........haven't you?

All through early spring and summer, I have flowers sprouting and blooming, but they all seem to be doing their best during this time of year and all the way up to November. The rose moss is bursting in all colors.

And overflowing in all containers.

I love using old kitchen ware, such as this rusted old roasting pan to plant rose moss in.

The morning glory is growing and climbing on everything that stands still long enough. From the old vintage fencing.............

to the gnarled and crooked mesquite trees..........
and up against walls.............blooming in all wonderful colors of soft blue

striking white............

and alluring pinks.

On the front porch sits my poinsettia that I have had since this past Christmas. It had begun to look tired and tattered right after February , so I placed it into a larger pot with fertilized soil and place it out on the front porch..................and left it alone. Only watering it when it started to look droopy. The porch is shaded in this spot.............although the temperature can reach up to the 100's. So I am surprised that this plant has held on. I am hoping that by Christmas it will once again turn to it's "Christmas" color. This is a pink poinsettia, so I guess it won't really be a Christmas color and I wonder how much longer it will live.

Out by the chicken yard, grows a long line of sunflowers.
One flower that always amazes me is the sunflower. It can take the harshest wind, the thickest dirt and the hottest sun ............

and still look vibrant.

And before you ask.............yes, I planted my Zinnia gardens this year. They are starting to get tall


and to show off their heady blossoms. There are still quite a few more extreme hot days left for this area in Texas................but I am excited to feel the change in the air because fall is my favorite time of year.
How about you?
Are you feeling the change in the seasons?
Are you getting cooler days and nights?
What is blossoming in your garden?
I would love to hear!


Friday, August 16, 2013

This morning, I pulled the very first pumpkin from my patch

I really had not wanted to do this so early in the season, but I did so, hoping that all of the small pumpkins will now get large. I have heard that one pumpkin can get all of the nutrients away from the other pumpkins and usually folks pull off all of the little ones to let the one big one keep growing. I, however, want more than one big one. Hopefully, by October, there will be more.
 

With all of the rain that we have been constantly getting, the vines are stretching out of the yard and into the woods.

I also have a small patch of decorative gourds and I now wish I had planted more of these.

There are so many colorful............

long............

round and odd looking ones. I can't wait to decorate my fall table with them!

So I have black cat (Salem) and a pumpkin on my porch..........
a little earlier than for Halloween.
How about you?
Any pumpkins in your patch this year?
I would love to hear!