Looking at Summers End
Posted by Kirk M on 03 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Life at home
There’s a stand of flowering plants in the backyard surrounding an ancient Lilac tree that begin to grow in the late Spring and spend the rest of the summer growing to the height of 5 feet or more before bursting out with a single, bright yellow flower at the top of each stalk. A bit like a sunflower in miniature and like their their larger cousins, they follow the sun around each day until it dips down below the tree line behind them.
In their own beautiful way they announce that the end of Summer is soon at hand and it’s time to begin making plans for buttoning up the house for the coming Autumn the colder weather to come–but not quite yet. Soon enough though.
Summer always seems too short around these parts.
So I thought I post a picture these kind harbingers of the end of Summer so you’ll know what I’m speaking of and what we have at our place to brighten our days at Summer’s end.
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on 03 Sep 2007 at 8:37 pm 1.Micki said …
A lovely way to celebrate summer.
on 03 Sep 2007 at 8:48 pm 2.KirkM said …
Hi Micki,
It certainly is but I’ll tell you up front…each year it seems just a bit harder to face the coming cold weather. Seems the older I get the farther north I go. There’s something wrong with that.
I came up here for love though so that makes it all worth it.
on 04 Sep 2007 at 12:58 am 3.coorg said …
nice header image… i liked it
on 04 Sep 2007 at 10:11 am 4.KirkM said …
coorg,
High praise indeed considering that beautiful header image you have. Many thanks. makes me wish I could travel again.
That happens to be a picture I took during the late Spring of last year up in the hills surrounding my town. Then I used a couple of imaging programs to put the little guy on the river bank and insert his reflection.