The Turning Inward Season

I've always loved the spiral both as an artistic device and a metaphor.  We are slowly watching the light diminish as an autumn stillness descends all around us.  John will be here this morning to continue the cut back in the garden but these lovely asters, the last to bloom, still have a memory of summer to offer so they will be the last to be cut down.  Some see this as a sad time, I welcome it.   Gift#282: to welcome this quieting time.