It's fall. I love this time of year. It is the one season that I want to feel as if I am savoring, as the beauty of the colorful foliage seems to drift away far too fast. This year, I don't have as big a flower/pumpkin/scarecrow display out on my front porch as I have had in some years past. A couple of days ago I slung two mums and a pumpkin from Wal-mart out there "for now."
It occurs to me that "now" will soon be yesterday and my paltry fall celebration will be tossed out in favor of Christmas decor. Maybe tomorrow is a good day to re-pot the mums so they will thrive for the next month, and drive a cute scarecrow from Hobby Lobby into the ground near them. Ya gotta have a scarecrow. I used to have one with pigtails. Come on. I don't care who you are, you gotta love a scarecrow with pigtails!!
So I have established that I am not Martha Stewart, or even one of her act-alikes. Back to this glorious season. Going to spend the rest of the fifteen minutes that we have foliage actually looking at it and enjoying it!
We cannot go through life on auto-pilot, so distracted by our duties and our worries that we miss the beauty that is all around us, every single day. I think I know why the colors of this season are here and then gone again so quickly. God knows that we take for granted anything that is always there. DO NOT! Love your family, your friends, your home. Thank Him for your talents, your health, the myriad other ways He has blessed you.
I have included a photo of a tree in my yard that oversweeps my deck because I know, the next time I look at it, the leaves will be gone. Then you and I will be digging as hard as we can into the joys of winter. Yes, I just said the JOYS of winter. More on that to come!
It occurs to me that "now" will soon be yesterday and my paltry fall celebration will be tossed out in favor of Christmas decor. Maybe tomorrow is a good day to re-pot the mums so they will thrive for the next month, and drive a cute scarecrow from Hobby Lobby into the ground near them. Ya gotta have a scarecrow. I used to have one with pigtails. Come on. I don't care who you are, you gotta love a scarecrow with pigtails!!
So I have established that I am not Martha Stewart, or even one of her act-alikes. Back to this glorious season. Going to spend the rest of the fifteen minutes that we have foliage actually looking at it and enjoying it!
We cannot go through life on auto-pilot, so distracted by our duties and our worries that we miss the beauty that is all around us, every single day. I think I know why the colors of this season are here and then gone again so quickly. God knows that we take for granted anything that is always there. DO NOT! Love your family, your friends, your home. Thank Him for your talents, your health, the myriad other ways He has blessed you.
I have included a photo of a tree in my yard that oversweeps my deck because I know, the next time I look at it, the leaves will be gone. Then you and I will be digging as hard as we can into the joys of winter. Yes, I just said the JOYS of winter. More on that to come!
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