October 1, 2009
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First Frost and October musings….
The season has definitely shifted with suddenness and vengeance from summer to fall with the first hard frost last night.
Many of the trees have not even changed color! 
Especially feeling it after a week in hot California temperatures. Spent most of the day in the yard digging and rescuing plants.
Nanuq made her contributions as well in digging and chewing. 
This included 
pulling three tomato plants, 
A tangled mixture of stems and 
blooms tied to the back railing. ! placing in card board boxes. 
trimming my outdoor pots on front and back porches, 
eventually moving them indoors, 
digging a few carrots, repotting some including my basil herb plant and a Christmas cactus, collecting some blooms for last bouquets in the house, raking spots in the yard, the crab apples are all over ( as is dog shit!
) I enjoyed cooking a stir fry from some fresh veggies, 
falling into bed for a nap around 6 PM and then covering plants 
in various areas of the yard with sheets 
and inverted pots. 
This morning a layer of frost was very evident on the back railing,
dog footprints on the porch 
as I think it dipped to minus 2 or 3oC. Love the pattern of the morning light on this bike wheel on the porch 
The forecast is rain and a fairly hard frost by next Monday so trying to hold on to any thing in the yard beyond that point is fruitless…love the pun!Holding on and letting go interesting processes but that is what the changing seasons demand and that is the lessons or challenge as we try control our small corner of the world. Is it safety and predictability that we seek in doing so?
Affirmations for October include:
- Rooted, grounded you bloom
- Stretch into all you are becoming
- You can’t whitewash yourself by blackening others
- “ Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you” Ephesians 4:32
These monthly affirmations were selected randomly and written at the beginning of the year and amazing how appropriate each seems to be.
Comments (1)
D has told me that all the leaves are already turning and I'm sad to be missing another Canadian fall. I bet it's quite a change to the weather you experienced in Sacramento. It's hard to believe it's already october because it doesn't feel much like fall with it being in the 70's and 80's still.
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