California Dreaming

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The shorter days are arriving now. It's been a gradual process, that you always try to deny, but when you wake up early, it seems one morning you have to acknowledge it's here and happening! I haven't even finished in the garden yet - surely this can't be the end of summer, here so abruptly? The days are still sunny, but already it's a sort of diluted sunshine. I go out into the garden feeling much more alert and able to do the necessary things, because I don't do well in those hot days of summer. It's not been an easy year. Wildfires, drought and despair with extreme watering restrictions - actually no watering allowed. Like many others, I had to watch plants die. But next year, like many others, I will be better prepared. At this time I'm planting for next year and harvesting my final squashes and eggplants from this year. The nights are much cooler. But today my thoughts are with the poor souls in California now struggling with drought and wildfires. They've lost so much. I feel great kinship with them.