In mid-October I stopped in Target to pick up something. There, prominately displayed by the aisle, were Christmas dishes. They caught my eye and I thought how pretty a holiday table would look with them. Then, I remembered it was October. Christmas dishes in a store in October?
Halloween morning the Sunday newspaper arrived full of ads. Toy ads. The kind of toy ads that usually are in the Thanksgiving morning paper. Again, I wondered, wasn't it a bit too soon to be thinking about Christmas?
Monday morning, November 1, on the way to work I was doing my usual searching on the car radio trying to find a song I like. Unfortunately, I pushed the button for our local radio station that plays Christmas music 24/7 in November and December.
I'm really not in the mood to think about Christmas yet. We have had such a beautiful fall in Kansas City and see no reason to rush from one season to the next. Is Thanksgiving just a bump in the road from Halloween to Christmas? Not for me! I hanging on to autumn for a while longer. If you feel the same, you might enjoy these photos of fall color:
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| Carpet of ginkgo leaves |
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| Gold Pillar Barberry in the fall |
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| Heptacodium (Seven Son Flower) |
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| Shantung Maple |
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| October Glory Maple |
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| Pansy |
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| Aronia (Chokeberry) |
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| Garden Mum |
These are fantastic shots! I absolutely love fall colors. It is way too early for Christmas:)
ReplyDeleteThanks. Spring is always so busy at the nursery. Fall is the one time of year I can really enjoy what I do for a living and see no reason to rush through it.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you that Thanksgiving and autumn are almost overlooked these days. The commercialism of the Christmas holiday is so upsetting to me. I was in my favorite garden center the day before Labor Day to buy pansies and kale and sure enough, they were setting up the Christmas shoppe. And that was September! I love autumn too and so I really enjoyed your photos, especially the ginkgo leaves. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteLovely! I could spend the whole day in a place filled with those lovely blooms.
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