When I was out this morning with the camera, it struck me that the shrub border was looking positively autumnal. With the hydrangeas in bloom and a few fallen leaves from the nearby weeping willow, this picture looks just a bit fall-like, doesn’t it?
Hydrangeas and seated woman sculpture in our shrub border
The sculpture
The sculpture in the shrub border is a work in progress that John started several years ago. He takes it into his studio every winter because it is unfinished and he has hopes that he can work on it. However, his job is still very demanding at the moment, and so I think finishing the seated woman will have to wait until his work hours become more manageable.
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No. No. No. There is no Fall in the air. That’s way off. Summer is still strong and we have plenty, I say plenty, left. Tons left. You are incorrect, wrong, and erroneous. I’ve just started being able to relax and enjoy my garden, had friends over for a barbecue for the first time this weekend, and have only been out a couple times kayaking. We still have months and months left of summer. you’re just cruel. But I like your husband’s sculpture.
So sorry, Jim, but there are signs a plenty…
I refuse to see them. And you can’t make me.
Ah, I have to agree with Jim’s comment – we have a lot of summer to go still, but you can dream on and look forward to the coming of fall. We know that it is just “around the corner” as time passes at full speed.
This summer’s heat and humidity has me longing for cooler temps too – hot summer days are not as enjoyable as they once were.
Lene
Even tho you feel a little lke fall, it still looks lush to me Yvonne. We have had very very little rain and it has been in the upper 90′s for at least 2 months! My gardens are crispy to say the least. It’s very sad. And really it’s too hot to go out and work in them. Oh well, maybe next year will be better. John’s sculpture looks interesting. I would love to see it when it’s done!
Yes, indeed, Lene, more summer to come, for sure. I’m sorry you’ve had such dry weather, Eve. We’ve hogged all the rain. The lawn hasn’t even gone dormant, it’s very lush.
Yvonne: All I can say i Like your bolgs so keep it up and I will keep telling you i like your blogs.
John
If it were summer for too long, it would feel wrong, wouldn’t it? This has been a “classic summer”, lots of heat, sun and terrific downpours (at least at our summer cottage where there were monsoons this week!) I have been shooting chronological bouquets of my meadow flowers: just finished ratibida/perovskia/silphium/liatris/solidago on August 2nd and not much left. Vernonia, Rudbeckia subtomentosa and loads more goldenrod (sigh…) still to come, plus the big grass flowers. When I get this melancholy feeling in mid-August about summer ending, I think of all the seedheads and birds being happy for fall. And, yes, cooler weather for sleeping.
The signs are there but they’re still small. A few days ago we saw Canada Geese gathering on a small lake near the house. Not many but that’s how it starts every year. And there are splashes of colour here and there among the maples. Not much but that’s how it starts.
The photo is beautiful!
I suffer from winters but feel some relief with fall after plenty of garden work and tend to accept its necessity. Though what you can see among the shrubs is only the distance from the summer solistice