Soaking in the last beauty of summer days...

The last days of summer are here... the flowers are wilting... but still a few of them are beautiful. It would be sad to see winter come, with all the cold rain and gray bleakness.

 It would be sad to see the beauty disappear, from the rainbow of colors to a dull black and white...

 Even the sunflowers are done blooming and are heavy with seeds, ready for harvest.

I really enjoyed the hot colorful beauty of summer this year. But I have always enjoyed fall colors too, and cant wait to see how my garden will look when she puts on the more golden-orange dress on and does a little twirl...:)

psychiatry's prescription for violence Pt 01

If you or your child take antidepressant medication, watch this. Stop taking it. It could kill you or your loved ones.

The Bridge

Such an incredible movie to watch with your children. So powerful and sad, and empowering.

Wilting garden gives me seeds.

Is your garden wilting about now, turning brown? As the days are getting shorter, the nights colder...and the garden is getting ready for winter-to sleep and rest. I took some lovely pictures of my wilting flowers, I believe they are still very pretty, don't you? :)

~~To the attentive eye each moment of the year has its own beauty; and in the same field it beholds every hour that was never seen before, and shall never be seen again. The heavens change every moment and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Here is what dry dill looks like... well the seeds at least.

~~ Autumn into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer, summer into fall-so rolls the changing year, and so we change.~~ Dinah Muloch Craik

A lot of my flowers are turning dry, as soon as they turn a nice crisp brown and die that’s when I can collect the seeds for another year. For another beautiful colorful spring. The flowers I had this year were the seeds my mother in law had collected the previous year, who is teaching me when I can collect my seeds. At first not knowing any better I collected the almost dry flowers, not really ripe for the seed collecting. There must be a scientific reason why the flowers need to die before I can collect the seeds. 

My garden is wilting, my garden is dry.

The flowers are fading

The grasses are wild

The wind is much cooler

The sun not as hot

The blooms full of seeds

To harvest I must

To wait until spring

For beauty to bloom

As soon as its warm

Here are some lovely verses from the Bible about gardening, harvest and seeds. 

Gen 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Jer 5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Psa 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isa 40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

Amazing and lovely photos of all kinds of seeds.

Here is another pretty book, such colors, such detail of each little seed. Its a fun book to take out and show your children, but very fun for adults too.

Such pretty drawings of each seed.

If you never gardened before or just want to brush up on some skills, here is a link you can use:

How to garden? 

~ If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak.~~

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth