September 9th, 2019

Monday again!!!

The days are getting shorter --

8.00 p.m. and already the shadows have drawn in

and the evening begins to darken.

(Bruce can no longer see the cat who has been saucily sitting

on the shed roof, across the street,

challenging him to wear himself out barking....

and so the night is quieter, too!)

I have finished in the kitchen...

coffee on for early morning,

and in the hour or so before my youngest son

pops in to discuss our days

and say goodnight

I am planning to refamiliarize myself with the ukulele music

that the ladies are playing Tuesday mornings.

I have not been going to practice

over the summer.......

just strumming a bit over breakfast, here at home

and so I must remind myself how to pick, and strum the chords

and make sure everything is in tune.

 Here is my audience!!!

Out in the garden yesterday, and I picked a few of the last barn flowers and

some of the autumn crocus 

There won't be many more garden flowers to put on

the shelf that holds reminders

of the beloved,

although the sedum has not bloomed yet

and there are also the gloriously coloured

fall leaves

I found a few raspberries

and they perked up the breakfast cereal

deliciously.

When I am not in the garden, clearing away the wonderful remains of summer,

I am most often in the loom room...

Here are the towels I am making - I am on my fourth

and anxious to finish

so I can do another warp of these

amazingly beautiful fall colours....

Here is another rendition of September Song

by dear old Willie Nelson