Up With the Sun

Posted on Monday 28 August 2006 at 07:52

The days are getting shorter and shorter. I saw my breath when I walked out two nights ago, and I cringed. Will we see the full end of harvest, or will the last things of summer be cut short by winter's first cold touch?

I went to bed early last night, "early" for me being before midnight, and woke with David's alarm just before five. I got up with him to make him a coffee and convince him to eat breakfast, and just as well. He snatched a moment to email from work and tell me that they're beginning plant repair and maintenance. Scaffolding is going up, contractors are beginning to appear from whatever nether realm they're stored in when not in use. He'll be a-hurry today, and sometimes the schedule forgets to let its slaves stop for a bite midday. It makes a long twelve hours.

For two hours while the dark waited and faded, I indulged myself in the luxury of writing, something I haven't tried for many weeks. Then I walked out and saw a new sun lighting the golden swaths of the field out the kitchen window.

Dishes are waiting, children are waking. Time is drifting on. All the busyness of summer's end has come.

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Posted by homesteadinthemaking on Monday 28 August 2006 at 02:10 - Link

Oh, my word. It was 96* here yesterday. I am hoping the fall season hurries up. It's so funny the different temperatures around the country. I wish I could send you a little more summer.
Blessings,
Trixi

Oh yes

Posted by jackiebridgen on Tuesday 29 August 2006 at 03:46 - Link

We have autumn in the air here, too. August has been a strange month, here in the UK - July blazed unremittingly, and August, normally hot humid and much longer than 31 days (!) has been damp and chilly, by and large.
Mind you, I love Autumn, it's my favourite season - going back to school, raking leaves, lighting the woodstove .... do you get much of an autumn/fall? I mean are you a four season climate, as such, or more of a two season?