No Use Pretending...Summer Is Ending

With the cool, wet weather we’ve been ‘enjoying’ it comes as no surprise…summer is ending!

 The weather-page simply reminded us in case we are missing it;-)

Please be safe, dear Floridians!

 This week's rainstorms offered up some most unusual backdrop colors...

Summer is ending

No use in pretending

What once was tender and green is still so

August arrangements

Morph into estrangements

Darling, rich tress dons suggestions of snow

Pray, the Lord willing

With fall colors spilling

We will surrender summer’s lusty strains

Futile to tarry

And mourn moments merry

Darling, let’s make the most of what remains

Caramel glimmers

And tangerine shimmers

Flare on stares startled by bearings bereft

Of days much younger

And sunny and stronger

Darling, who knows where time goes; what is left?

Look in the mirror

Ah, truth is much clearer

When it confronts what was youth, face to face

Summer is ending

No use in pretending

It is July in September’s embrace

Darling, the hours

That filled and spilled flowers

Fades from the forefront; fall’s air wears blue-gray

Darling, each season

Is rife with kind reason

Let’s make the most of what soon slips away

© Janet Martin

so true, this quote from Charles Dickens...

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own;

and from morning to night as from the cradle to the grave

it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy

that we can scarcely mark their progress."

Enjoying the joys of 'early autumn' such as Grandson:)

now 8 mos. old!

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesdic154061.html

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesdic1