August slips away

There is a chill in the air

and it seems that summer

is starting to cool down

to allow for fall

to take her place.

We've been lucky enough to have

two or three rains

almost every week this summer

to keep things green.

I have never been so grateful for them

until I read so many of your blogs

where you have shared your desperate needs

for rain in your gardens.

It's wondeful to see what blooms

from month to month in the summer.

Just as one flower goes to seed

another one begins to blossom nearby.

Front entry

"Let me enjoy
this late-summer day of my heart
while the leaves are still green
  and I won't look so close as to see
 that first tint of pale yellow slowly creep in.

 I will cease endless running
and then look to the sky
ask the sun to embrace me
and then hope she won't tell
of tomorrows less long than today.

Let me spend just this time
 in the slow-cooling glow of warm afternoon light
and I'd think I will still have the strength
for just one more last fling of my heart."

- John Bohrn, Late August

I am linking to Honey's 
brand new party:

http://twenty-eight-0-five.blogspot.com/2011/09/potpourri-friday-party-1-and-giveaway.html