a rose of hips

it is too early...

can summer be heading on the downward spiral already?

yet there they were...

rose hips... on the rose bushes... a sure sign that fall is in the air...

i think...

here is another case where i'm probably making things up - and i know not of what i speak...

since i have no earthly idea of the cycle of rose hips really... it just seems to me that once the roses die off the bushes outside my house - a little time goes by - which ends up being most of the rest of the summer months - then suddenly the rose hips appear... which is near to the beginning of fall.

so... see? therein lies my version of the common sense of nature... boo! whether it's true or not, somehow it makes sense in my little head - makes for a pretty decent story, too...

plus...

makes for a

happy day.....