Procrastinating Fall’s Start September 22, 2025. 259 words

Like many people, I will procrastinate what I want to defer or avoid. This works in the short term, but eventually, we must come to act.
Today is the first day of fall. Here in Michigan, our weather is calling for showers with highs in the 70’s, accompanied by a light wind of 6 mph. This is not fall like weather. The long term forecast calls for more of the same.
My garden resembles more jungle than trimmed plantings. I have postponed weeding and trimming vine plants, resulting with thirty foot gourd vines across the back wall, sweet potato vines that are escaping the fenced garden and morning glories wrapped around the patio rail and bench. I had to unwrap the trellis from coiling around the hanging nasturtium. Last evening the security camera recorded four deer, two skunks and several raccoons making their way to the leaf shaped watering trough. Nature has delayed fall to a later time.
Like my procrastinating, nature will turn down the heat, announcing the autumn harvest time. I will pick gourds to dry and give to neighbors, dig for potatoes and gather seed pods of morning glories and other flowers seeds to distribute.
For now, I will take my coffee to the porch and watch the jungle grow.
Gourd vines climb high on ornamental grass plants.
Sweet potatoes burst, escaping garden fence.
Porch railing and bench covered with glory greens.
I watch, watching the garden grow.
Soon Jack Frost will curtail jungle growth.
Starting the next season.
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copyrighted 9/22/25