Hello September

 

I'm always a bit sad when long summer nights get shorter by the day

and the sunrays begin to have a fall feeling, 

even knowing that I love fall with all it's vibrant colors.

But before I say goodbye to summer,

I want to show you how my golden rudbeckias have grown in these two years.

They bring a lot of joy to me. 

I've enjoyed switching up arrangements from the garden every week.

The globe thistle is one that lasts a long time in a vase and sometimes

I see the stems are not even in water anymore 

and they have turned into beautiful dried flowers. 

This sedum and hydraengea arrangement brightened up my table for a while. 

My mom's rose bush, which we call, Oma's roses, has had it's best season ever!

And the scent is amazing!  If only it could be bottled.

I cut several bunches of panickle hydraengeas and they usually didn't last long

but they sure were fun to photograph! 

The globe thistle again, with some whispery daisies that I don't know the name of. 

Okay, I looked them up, but the name is not one I'll remember. 

It took a long time for my mix of wild flower seeds to sprout among my lavender 

and,  even when they did it was hard to tell if they might just be weeds,

but eventually they came up. Mostly gangly poppies. 

And here I am back to the black eyed susans, 

almost crawling into my bedroom. 

I will miss their cheery good morning,

but it's so good to know they will come up again next year.