It's beginning to look a lot like fall around here, as crisp brown leaves fall off the neighbor's cottonwood onto our driveway, and fall flowers and foliage brighten overcast days. Norm presented us with 5 healthy chrysanthemum plants from Thies Garden Nursery for our anniversary. This red one greets any guests who come in the driveway.
Four more mums (one for each decade, Norm says) can be found lining the back porch steps. Since our back door is really our front door, they greet guests with cheery presence, too.
The coleus we planted in pots under the maple tree last spring have just been magnificent. Although today, they have been toppling in the wind. We are getting strong gusts of almost 30 mph from the south, a precursor of the "remains" of Hurricane Ike that are supposed to visit our area tonight and tomorrow all day with drenching rain. We have several acquaintances and friends in the hurricane area: college and high school friends of mine, a former student, brother of a friend, etc. We pray all of them are safe. Dealing with the aftermath of such a huge storm is going to be a major task. Meanwhile, here, it feels like it sometimes does in the spring when stiff winds are blowing up a pre-tornadic outbreak. They say we'll get 1-3 inches of rain, possibly more. We are thinking that someone else could use it better. As the remains of Gustav come over us a couple of weeks ago, we got 4 inches in one day. Last Thursday night we got 2 inches from a thunderstorm moving along the same front that Ike will follow. The Missouri River is supposed to flood out of its banks all along its course through the state during the coming week. Enough already!
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