Holding on to summer

Wildly happy flowers

watercolour, acrylic ink and black marker

on watercolour paper

6 x 9 inches

Barbara Muir © 2019

I found this watercolour I hadn't finished, and

added more colour. It might be complete.  Everyone

is talking about fall, pumpkins are on sale.  Halloween 

candy has been filling the shelves in grocery stores for a month,

but I am holding on.

In the daytime now it can still be quite hot, but most of the time it

is perfect out -- the best -- warm, but not hot -- energizing. At

night the fall cool hits, and of course eventually both the cold

and the night will win out, and we will live through those 

short days, and long nights, and bebam it will be winter.

But right now our white anemones are six feet tall, and a mass

of white blooms.  Our back porch is newly painted and rebuilt and

the gleaming white shouts out summer, summer, summer!  Yes.

A great night tonight at the Heliconian Club, but more about

that tomorrow.  

Have a holding onto summer day.