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Goodbye, September, I Hardly Knew Ye

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Robin Strong Elton

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September:

it was the most beautiful of words,
he’d always felt, evoking orange-
flowers, swallows, and regret.

-Alexander Theroux

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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?

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3 responses to “Goodbye, September, I Hardly Knew Ye”

  1. Robin Avatar
    Robin

    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?

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  2. Schrothtastic Avatar
    Schrothtastic

    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!

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  3. Robin Avatar
    Robin

    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.

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