Blooming

This cooler weather really stirs the gardener to get back out in the garden and get all the things planted that have been sitting in pots! The soil is getting softer and the colors are so beautiful - how could anyone resist!

daylilies are still blooming

"The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold."
William Cullen Bryant

Hearts a Busting!

Peru Lilies

"When all the cows were sleeping
And the sun had gone to bed,
Up jumped the pumpkin,
And this is what he said:

I'm a dingle dangle pumpkin
With a flippy floppy hat.
I can shake my stem like this,
And shake my vine like that."
Theodor Storm, A Song in October

beautiful pink phlox - called Bright Eyes

Deep blue Spiderworts

Purple toads

Hairy butterfly

Encore Azalea - Burning Embers

"Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle
concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season."
Wu-Men

Ligularia

Last rose of summer?

Spiderworts still blooming

Yellow toads

Perhaps the most famous icon of the holiday is the jack-o-lantern. Various authorities attribute it to either Scottish or Irish origin. However, it seems clear that it was used as a lantern by people who traveled the road this night, the scary face to frighten away spirits or faeries who might otherwise lead one astray. Set on porches and in windows, they cast the same spell of protection over the household. (The American pumpkin seems to have forever superseded the European gourd as the jack-o-lantern of choice.) Bobbing for apples may well represent the remnants of a Pagan 'baptism' rite called a 'seining', according to some writers. The water-filled tub is a latter-day Cauldron of Regeneration, into which the novice's head is immersed. The fact that the participant in this folk game was usually blindfolded with hands tied behind the back also puts one in mind of a traditional Craft initiation ceremony. Mike Nichols, All Hallow's Eve

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	This cooler weather really stirs the gardener to get back out in the garden and get all the things planted that have been sitting in pots! The soil is getting softer and the colors are so beautiful - how could anyone resist!
	daylilies are still blooming "The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold." William Cullen Bryant Hearts a Busting! Peru Lilies "When all the cows were sleeping And the sun had gone to bed, Up jumped the pumpkin, And this is what he said: I'm a dingle dangle pumpkin With a flippy floppy hat. I can shake my stem like this, And shake my vine like that." Theodor Storm, A Song in October beautiful pink phlox - called Bright Eyes Deep blue Spiderworts Purple toads	Hairy butterfly Encore Azalea - Burning Embers "Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts, that's your best season." Wu-Men Ligularia Last rose of summer? Spiderworts still blooming Yellow toads

	Perhaps the most famous icon of the holiday is the jack-o-lantern. Various authorities attribute it to either Scottish or Irish origin. However, it seems clear that it was used as a lantern by people who traveled the road this night, the scary face to frighten away spirits or faeries who might otherwise lead one astray. Set on porches and in windows, they cast the same spell of protection over the household. (The American pumpkin seems to have forever superseded the European gourd as the jack-o-lantern of choice.) Bobbing for apples may well represent the remnants of a Pagan 'baptism' rite called a 'seining', according to some writers. The water-filled tub is a latter-day Cauldron of Regeneration, into which the novice's head is immersed. The fact that the participant in this folk game was usually blindfolded with hands tied behind the back also puts one in mind of a traditional Craft initiation ceremony. Mike Nichols, All Hallow's Eve
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