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It’s really and truly fall, with night time temperatures dipping into the forties and daytime temperatures remaining in the 70s and 80s.\u00a0 Leaves crunch underfoot as I take my daily walk to the mailbox with Shadow in tow.\u00a0 I’ve got the Halloween decorations out and the fall centerpiece my dad made almost 20 years ago. I can’t believe that this October he will be gone 13 years, and my mom gone for 20 years now.\u00a0 Their birthdays are both in October, and the anniversary of my dad’s death is at the end of October. Fall now reminds me of my parents and of times gone by.<\/p>\n

I’ve written before about how my dad grew chrysanthemums for the Long Island Chrysanthemum Society, and my sister Ann, too.\u00a0 I was hesitant to plant mums here at Seven Oaks because of the deer. My friend, Mary Alice, once told me a funny story about her mums in her home in Pennsylvania. One bright autumn Saturday she went to the garden center and bought a dozen yellow chrysanthemums. She planted them along one side of her house among the shrubs.\u00a0 After gardening for an hour she went into the house to wash up.\u00a0 About an hour later she made a cup of tea in the kitchen and gazed out the window at the flower bed where she’d planted those bright yellow blossoms. Imagine her surprise and shock when all she saw was green!\u00a0 And now she saw the culprit – deer – daintily chomping off each blossom and flower, leaving her with nothing but green stalks.<\/p>\n

Since deer wander into my yard every evening, I thought I shouldn’t plant mums. I think having Shadow helps, though.\u00a0 Her scent is all over the flower garden since she loves to be next to me while I weed or plant.\u00a0 I also leave hair from her grooming sessions near the flower beds, hoping that the scent keeps the critters away.<\/p>\n

Last year I planted a small purple mum. This year it is the size of a shrub!\u00a0 I am waiting for the mums I bought at the April Master Gardener sale her in Farmville to bloom.\u00a0 The plants grew huge and healthy, but I lost the labels. The leaves are the type that my dad grew, so I am hoping for some unusual colors or varieties.<\/p>\n

This year, we planted yellow, burgundy and purple mums near the front walkway and along the driveway in the flower garden.\u00a0 So far (fingers crossed!) so good – the flowers are still there.<\/p>\n

I love to look at the mums.\u00a0 They used to make me sad because I thought about my parents, but now they make me so happy.\u00a0 As time goes by, bad memories fade and only good ones remain. I think Shakespeare was wrong when he said, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”\u00a0 For me, only good memories remain.\u00a0 Maybe, like weeding a garden, I weed out the bad ones.<\/p>\n

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It’s really and truly fall, with night time temperatures dipping into the forties and daytime temperatures remaining in the 70s and 80s.\u00a0 Leaves crunch underfoot as I take my daily walk to the mailbox with Shadow in tow.\u00a0 I’ve got the Halloween decorations out and the fall centerpiece my dad made almost 20 years ago….<\/p>\n

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