Summer 2025 is now a memory to hold in our hearts! Despite the drought, with abundant watering and care, the gardens did very well. We had tons of zucchini, which we gave to local food banks, to neighbors, and to anyone who would take one or two! The tomatoes did well, and the pumpkins (which we use for our open house pumpkin painting activities) flourished.
We have arrived at the end of summer. Indeed, this coming Sunday is the fall equinox. It is the time of Harvest, the gathering of all the bounties that the earth, in her generosity, allowed us to plant and nurture. Now we reap into our barns and kitchens all the hay and grain for our animals and store (canning and freezing) the garden produce to nurture ourselves during the frozen winter. It is truly a miracle-filled time of year when everything comes to fruition.
Well, Dear Friends, here we are experiencing autumn. We have to bid a fond farewell to the lushness of summer. The light dwindles, the bird songs soften, and the crickets are silent.
I’m writing this update just after the Thanksgiving Holiday. We hope all of you had a renewing, festive feast with family and friends, and that indeed, everyone to surround your table and your heart brought gratitude and love.
Fall Greetings everyone during this beautiful month of October! This is the time when the earth dresses her leafy trees with magnificent colors for all of us to observe and enjoy, as we secretly wish that they would hold on to their leaves tightly and not allow them to fall. But this is not in the plan of our earthly existence.
