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And Summer’s Lease Hath All Too Short A Date

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The title of this post was written by Shakespeare and it’s one of my favorites. It’s from Sonnet 18 – Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? 

I’m really feeling that this morning as I notice the coneflowers turning brown, the gardens looking ragged, the light changing. It’s still officially summer and will be until later on in September, but we all know that we think of Labor Day as the day we move on to autumn. It always leaves me feeling a bit melancholy.

It’s a quiet day here. There’s less traffic on our heavily traveled road. The sun has come out after a rainy day yesterday. I had a good coaching session yesterday and have another one scheduled for tomorrow. But today? I’m going to take it easy. Get back to my painting. Listen to the new vinyl version of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water  album. Don ordered it the other day because we started talking about The Boxer and how much we love that song and then realized it wasn’t on any of our CDs.

I hope you have a lovely day today. Enjoy.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

Zinnias and Work

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Sunny, but with a golden quality to the light that tells me autumn is coming.

I’ve had to reschedule my coaching sessions at the last minute twice this week as the actor is filming a series in England and the filming has gone past the time originally scheduled. We’re going to work tomorrow on his day off. (Not his fault, of course!)

I also was contacted by the next Anastasia  tour – this one is non-union, as it’s the second national tour – and we’re trying to schedule some days where I come in and work with the actors. All of this conveniently falls in late September – mid October, before I start work on the movie. I am grateful for the opportunity to be the main source of income for the next few months. Really, really grateful.

As you might imagine, our lawn throughout the property is very overgrown because of all the rain. Today, we’ll start to tackle that. I’ve been wearing a mask when I mow because my allergies are so bad this year. I don’t know if it helps, but I do it anyway. Anyway, we have our work cut out for us this weekend.

Hopefully, I’ll get some time to paint. Fingers crossed.

Sad to see summer ending, but ready for fall.

Hope all is well with you.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

Finally Relaxing

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From our foggy, dewy, soon-to-be-unbearably-humid garden. One more day of this crap and then we’ll have some relief.

This may be my favorite of the many zinnias blooming in the garden.

Also seen this morning, exiting after having flown into the center of a morning glory:

Love seeing the pollen on his legs.

I’m going to try to weed whack this morning before it gets too hot. Don is going to do a bit of mowing.

I’m just now relaxing after a very stressful and packed two weeks. It feels good. I officially started one-on-one coaching for the movie with a session yesterday afternoon.

I can now attend to some things around here – I haven’t painted in about 3 weeks due to a combination of things; needing a break, the whole Beacon Hill dollhouse trip, the initial email from Jim and then two weeks of wondering if I would get the job, discovering that the Beacon Hill smells musty, researching what to do about it and working on that when I wasn’t working on my interview for the movie job. And life.

Hopefully, I’ll get back to painting tomorrow when the temperature drops and the excess humidity leaves. Once again, we have a heat advisory today. August has been hellish, weather-wise.

Drum roll: yes, I’m going to say it now. I’m looking forward to Fall. Maybe August is what it is in order to have our bodies and minds accept and even welcome the seasonal change. It sure is this year.

Getting close to finishing The Woman in Blue  by Elly Griffiths. I have the next one in the series in my TBR pile. I find that even though I have lots of other books I want to start, I end up choosing the next Griffiths because I’m hooked.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

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