Still Gardening

I didn't get much done over the weekend but somehow the garden is still thriving without my attention. These are the lettuce and chinese cabbage plants coming right along. I'm still waiting for some of the big tomatoes to even start ripening although the little yellow plums are going pretty strong as are the blackberries.
Things have been rather quiet around here and although I didn't buy wood for the future arbor I did go investigate the possibilities over the last weekend. I'm pretty sure it'll be this weekend's project besides doing the general cleaning and mowing stuff.
Today was the first all sunny day we've had in a long time. It's not humid and the evenings have been very sleep worthy. You can almost feel a touch of fall coming dare I say? I don't really look forward much to winter but having been a New Englander all my life I feel it's necessary and right that there be some time to contemplate the next gardening season to really appreciate it when it's here. I couldn't happily live anywhere else really - It's all here for me. For you? It's all wherever you are or you'd be somewhere else no? Although I sometimes think more money or a new relationship would make me happier, I don't feel driven to strive for either thing because at the end of the day I'm just happy to be home with what I have. It has been always been the seasons and the goodness of people that has made me feel most alive....it's hard to say if our lives are any easier than they were 100 years ago....we support so many things they didn't have to then but we want all those things....things that make us feel connected, important parts of the society we live in. But is the end result better for us than our predecessors? Another evolutionary turn that has yet to produce a definitive answer....still gardening though.
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