11.14.2023 | Ordinary Tuesday

The skies are sunny here in the Carondelet Garden on this simple, ordinary Tuesday morning.  We are expecting a partly cloudy day with highs in the upper 60s again.  Can you believe this beautiful weather?  Such a bit of grace at this time of year.

The Garden is coming to its natural end.  We seem to be losing all those lovely things that we enjoy seeing so much.  The good news is that there so many of these incredible days, especially at the beginning and middle of November when the leaves are still trying to hold on and are still giving off their incredible glow in the Autumn light.  I always feel that November is the peak month for color here in the Saint Louis area.  The leaves just seem to reach their most glorious just after the first of the month.  We are starting to see the end of that glory right now. The leaves are beginning to fall in full.  Soon the wet weather will arrive and then those heavy frosts and the leaves will come clattering down in the chilly, still air.  

For now, I am enjoying the bit of warmth and doing some of those last-minute jobs we all seem to have in the garden.  The Leaf Mould is starting it annual journey to becoming a beautiful compost for next Autumn.  The Dahlias are out and hanging upside down to remove any remaining liquid in the tubers before they are stored in dry, spent compost in the darkest part of the old coal bin.  Lots of good things happening.  

It's definitely a good day for a good day.  Sunshine, lovely blue skies, and warm temperatures.  Quite difficult to think of much better.  The coffee is made, the newspapers are calling my name.  I have a bit of Haydn playing in the background.  As my Austrian friend would say, "not bad... not bad."  Be good and be kind to yourself and others as you travel about this Ordinary Tuesday.  That's all the news from here in the Carondelet Garden.