Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for September 18, 2021

Not yet! Not yet!

Pumpkin spice season has started

Saying goodbye to summer is so depressing.

But fall colors are so nice to see. And maybe we will get a LOT of fall rain, (I live in Oregon), to dampen the forests and clean out the atmosphere of smoke.

Ah, one of those places that actually have autumn…as opposed to those of us who have summer extend into October and November…

It’s been a horribly hot and humid “summer” here in central FL. . .cant wait for the "milder days of December. . .

85 degrees here in nyc. I say leave the pool out!

Don’t go quietly into the Autumn…..

July and August are the worst months of the year. Every year I dread the summer and am glad it ends soon (September 22).

The leaves are turning around here but the temperatures are still saying high-summer; at least 15F above normal and zero moisture.Climate change sucks!

It’s 90*F today, the pool stays.

Best be careful Jimbo, she could go full on Vicki any moment

I don’t wanna say goodbye to the summer.

i just heard that the Fall colors will be delayed here because the temps will be warmer for the month of October.

Around here the last chance in the pool may be Sunday and Monday, with 80 degree days. Then the temps will be in the 60s for the rest of the week.

Rose is not ready to let go the summer time yet, fella.

Regardless of the early arrival of pumpkin spice, Rose has four days and you better not try to take them from her!

Indian summer is still summer. (Is that somehow “racist”? If so, I don’t care!)

Dunkin’ Donuts has pumpkin spice already.Starbucks way behind.

I did my changeover Sunday in my little teddy bear village. The summer children’s show (featuring baby Fozzie Bear and a piano playing bear to accompany him) and the summer concert at the town gazebo (originally intended by mfr to be a bird feeder) were stored away, as was the craft show and the cubs were set up going to back to school (school being held outside of the building so “they are not inside and do not have to mask”) and the mom bears are sitting around on the park benches enjoying the cubs being in school. Over near the Silver Bears (seniors) sales booth there is a farmer’s market with bears selling their produce. There is a book club under the tree in the center of town (soon to be the Christmas tree again as it was intended to be) and the twin artists are setup on the other side of the tree painting portraits of bears who want to have one of themselves.

Downstairs I have another set of bears (these are all ceramic ones from a set by an specific artist) and the August bears were stored away. The back to school, produce carrying bears and the bears related to building/selling houses (we bought our house in a September) are set up for the month.

If we didn’t have these little ceramic and toy bears we would have gone crazy over the pandemic – but we can visit with them when we need to.

Fall can duck off