Last weekend demonstrated what is most likely to get many of us to the garden on a chilly and windy day: cookies! Two garden members had the wonderful idea of organizing a cookie exchange. Many gardeners obliged and brought cookies of many kinds: There were three kinds of home-baked chocolate-chip cookies, cat-tongue cookies, green-tea cookies, almond crescents, lemon-marmalade cookies, ginger snaps, cardamom pistachio cookies some chocolate bombs with dried cherries and more. We ate ourselves to a sugar high. It was so delicious and so much fun! We decided to make this a tradition for a late fall get-together before the winter break.
A few days later, it got quite warm again and it finally rained a bit. Our garden is still not ready for winter, see for yourself: Roses, Dahlias, and asters are still blooming. There was even a sunflower and some tomatoes, as well as marigolds, usually the first to succumb to the lightest frost.
Next week is Thanksgiving and the Christmas tree vendors have set up shop in front of the supermarket. Winter will be coming eventually. It just seems that it is coming later and later every year.