Fall continues to advance apace–and it’s raining again. I can’t remember a year when we had so much rain in July and August. Usually by this time, the turf is brown and long past mowing. Today, it’s green and growing, and in all the wet, threatening to damage our mowers.

The flowers are loving it.

I’m okay with an early fall. I wouldn’t mind an early freeze to zap the bugs, either.

I have three more “stick” trees coming to plant in September, and I’m thinking about buying a few more. Hoping for oxygen.

Meanwhile, my pin oaks have grown so large that I have to move my “sun” plants out from under them and replace with shade plants. If it would just stop raining for a day or two…