I love to soak up the sun. Just as long as doesn't get above ninety degrees, I am fine with the heat. Now that I see summer winding down it makes me sad. Fall is my favorite season but it is all too short.

The days are a little shorter and the nights grow longer.
The deck is littered with leaves and there is a little nip in the air in the morning. We start thinking about firewood and where to put all the plants that we have outside.

My DIL loves the winter. She always says, "I am a Winter girl". I have a picture of her in a long fur coat and hat, holding Adrienne in her arms in front of her parents apartment in Russia. It makes me cold just to look at all that snow. I am longing for a mild winter. I don't think we will get it. Some unknown critter has built a little house out of sticks under the deck. It looks very snug and I am thinking that instinct is telling it to prepare for a long and cold time to come.