September Soul-string Tug-of-War

 Happy Half-way through September!

September is the season that tugs the hardest on soul-strings, methinks...

Summer flowers and freedoms fade...

New grades greet scholars,

New scholars greet grades

and we moms/grammas? 

Well, we just need to 

wax nostalgic 

now and then...

(What's the stump with the board nailed to it in the pic below?!!

Why, an outdoor writing desk/coffee table, of course!😊)

The annual angst 

of cutting back flower gardens

has begun...

And veggie gardens

Before....

 

After...

Beet harvest is on next week's to-do 'hopes'!

This week's hope-to-do list is full

1 Peter 1:24
For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; 

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Inspired by yesterday and today's chores

A September Song

All blooms lead to farewell

First blossom’s bright ‘hello’

Begets the tolling of a bell

That leads to letting go

Of petal-mettle drained

Of felled flower of youth

For posies lead to plumes unchained

And farewell’s timeless truth

We cannot keep for long

The song of bud to bloom

Where petals fuel farewell’s gong

And Bygone’s boundless tomb

Then savor with intent

The flavour of today

The favor of each moment lent

Sparkles and fades away

Summer shakes out its quilt

After picnics and such

Strewing behind a patchwork lilt

Of petals lost to touch

Where the crumbs in our hold

Look quite common enough

But are more valuable than gold

Because their wealth is love

September is a sea

That rolls across heart-shores

Joy and grief’s synchronicity

Embraces and implores

Where, with each cricket tweet

We feel time’s trembling knell

In laws no wishes can defeat

All blooms lead to farewell

© Janet Martin

Yesterday's harvest was the last of the jalapeños ...

From this

to this...

to this!

and tomatoes!

From this...

...to this

to the potential of 

365 homemade tomato soup lunches!

It's SO good

September is the epitome of delight and resignation💔

September sum;

Veggies + prep = yum!

Tonight's supper

Spaghetti, 

homemade sauce

roasted veg and salad

included these veggies

proving again, it's the most wonderful time of the year...

green, red and jalapeño peppers,

beets,

butternut squash,

red and white onion,

zucchini,

potatoes,

garlic,

tomatoes,

carrots,

radishes,

parsley,

celery,

romaine lettuce

😋