Here it is, September. The gardening season is about over, because it has been getting cool and rainy again, and now… Now! the garden has decided to wake up and make something of itself.
Get in my belly, corn!
Tomatoes just beginning to turn, corn beginning to tassel out.
Let’s see if anything can manage to ripen before it molds to pieces.
We also have the winter beets sprouting, along with a few of the carrots. Carrots always have a variable germination rate. They sprout when they are good and ready to.
"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought."
From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".
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