Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The End of Summer... finally

After another above-average month of temperatures, including at least two record breakers, a wet cold front moved through and dropped a half inch of rain.  Now, at long last, nighttime temperatures are falling below 45°.  The turtles are in their bunkers.  Fluffy the feral cat is sleeping on her heated pad under the table.  

Summer is finally over.  



 Fortunately, we had tidied up the garage in preparation for moving the hardiest of the tender plants in there when the nights grow colder still.  We had set up the little pop-up green house and filled it with the cana lilies.  The truly tender plants like the croton and the Meyer's lemon had been moved into the sunroom.  

All is well in the garden, with the late-season flowers hanging on for the late-season bees and butterflies.  There's still more to do, but for now, all is well. 

Now if we survive the election, two weeks away.  If Harris loses, the climate, biodiversity, public lands, education, all will suffer, perhaps irretrievably.  

COP15 is underway in Cali, Colombia.  While at times it seems like just so much political posturing, recent disasters are bringing home the reality of climate change to many.  Maybe this time real progress can be shown.  Maybe the combined threats of a warmer, more dangerous world and impoverished ecosystems will finally be recognized as something more than academic concepts.  

Maybe positive changes will happen.


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