"Mums" the word!

I may lean to the left a tad, maybe a TAD!!!and I have been known to dip my toes in the crazy creek!!!but my attachment to things puts me in a category all its own!!

The weather is getting cooler,Labor Day was here,so I thought I would empty all of my annual summer plants and plant some Mums!!! That way they would be huge by October, and still, full as a tick, by November. I had a plan, until I went outside.

My summer annuals were putting on one more show. Blooms on all, peeking at me, and saying " We have one more good month in us". I pruned and picked, and cleaned them up, as if Summer was beginning. I did not have the heart to haul them to the compost pile.

So my Mums will be not be,Pumpkin round by October,I will find some fine fat ones soon enough. Right now, I'm watching the summers last hurrah,and its precious to me.

While "OOOHHHH" and "AWWWWWWE" ing, I heard from the den, " Bonnie, are you talking to the plants?"

"Maybe, I'm just having a hard time saying good-bye" in more ways then one.