Autumn is Here

Happy Autumn!


The weather has cooled (a bit) and the days are getting shorter.  I made chicken soup and muffins for dinner last night and two miniature pumpkins are snuggled together under the leaves of the orchid on our coffee table.   Fall is officially here.


Tony still finds it strange that Autumn is this time of year.  In New Zealand the seasons are opposite, so the time leading up to Christmas has always been Spring for him.  It must be strange to have things done backwards from how you grew up. I try to imagine Autumn leading into a cold rainy Winter without Christmas to brighten the season... I would think that Winter would seem very long.


We've been eating from our garden almost daily.

The beans are really crisp and the lettuce makes the best salad.  Our peppers should be done soon.   It's hard to wait!   Tony cultivated some tomatoes from seed and they are growing out of control.  Since we traveled so much this summer we had to start our garden really late, and we were a bit worried that things wouldn't grow well.  However, it's California.  The weather is always nice and things seem to grow crazy all year round.  Yeah!