An oft noted fact of life is that the acual seasons are not as predictable as the Solstices and Equinoxes commonly used to mark the seasonal celebrations. The beginning and end of any given season does not always coincide with its correspoding Solstice or Equinox. My wandering ways make it especially difficult to guess the season changes. The seasons move quite differently in each region.
Whatever region I find myself in, one of my most trusted signs that the seasons are changing is that I start getting gardening urges. I haven't plied scientific methodology to document the trust, but I trust it all the same. Proof irrelevant.
Anybody else have trusted signs that the coming season is arriving?
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
The leaves will be turning colors and falling to the ground soon. I like Fall and the color, which happen to be my favorite colors anyway.
Nights are a couple degrees cooler too. Soon I'll have to dig up my bulbs. Plus remove any perennials from my good clay and ceramic pots. If the water in the soil freezes and expands. My good pots will crack and break away. I have a few expensive pots.
The last of my flowers are in bloom. I have several plants that wait till late August to bloom. One is a plant similar to a succulent. The flowers are very abundant but tiny. When in full bloom, they look like pink velvet.
It was given to me years ago by a German neighbor. A slip from a slip from a slip, over 100 years old. Once it blooms, fall follows within weeks.
Having lived on a farm many years. You tend to notice seasonal changes more than the average person. Due to animal growth, mating and what they all need for different seasons.
Its nearly time to scalp my garden and pull up all the brown dead and Dieing vegetable plants. I've picked a great deal and still have more coming in for another month. I always allow a few from each type to go to seed. I just picked my dry Dill seed.
The North American subtropics have been the epicenter of my own nomadic life. I go with the claim that there are only two seasons here: Summer and August. Seasonal August arrives around April or May and lasts until around September or October. A *hard winter* finds us hot and drought-stricken on Christmas morning.