September:
it was the most beautiful of words,
he’d always felt, evoking orange-
flowers, swallows, and regret.
-Alexander Theroux
Check out my pumpkin! I think it was labelled a toadstool pumpkin, but I may be mistaken. It looks like I dripped paint all over it. I love all the ugly gourds and squash of fall, you’ll be seeing many more in the days ahead.
I really can’t believe it’s the last day of September. I feel like I missed out on the whole month, like it just ran through my fingers.
How was your September? Did you get a chance to savor it, or did it pass you by in a flurry of back-to-school, politics, and economic bailouts?
Melinda, you're right, it does look like an art project, only if I were deliberately painting it, it would be too picky, too perfect. None of the beautiful randomness and spontaneity–nature is a much better artist than I!
I pulled two hornworms off my tomato plants yesterday. Apparently they just took a single defiant bite out of all my ripe tomatoes. I don't know, can I still eat those?
Cut around the bite and go to town. That's what I say.
Also, I have roughly 1,000 bites on my legs. My legs are scratched and bitten and bumpy. I too cannot wait for the mosquitoes to go & we took the first step to getting rid of them – gutters!
See, the problem is that we're talking about eight big old tomatoes with a bite out of each. I'm worried about them going bad because they're exposed… Maybe a sauce is in order.
Your legs sound pretty. You should dot them up with pink calamine lotion for extra effect.