The planting is done in the fall, in hopes of blooms in late January.

Exactly.

Sure do love the change of seasons! :sunnysmil

Even here in So. California, the weather has been so very fine these past few days. Though we're well into Fall, it sure feels like Springtime! I was getting tired of all that snow and sleet we've had lately... :santa:

I love working really hard in the garden and reaping the fruits of my labor. I'm excited to see what the new year will bring to my garden and the landscape all around me.

The Weather When?
 

It is easy to forget that this is not like holding a conversation face to face.
In that your words will have meaning based on when you say them and where you are when you same them. To say great weather we are having lately has meaning to the other person since you are both in the same place and time.

On the internet and in any written word the reader may not be in the same place or even the same time as you when you wrote the words. So you must add more description of time and setting in order for others to understand your meaning.

If I say today was a great day. You have no idea why or what made it a great day unless we are both experiencing what made it great together. But if I say "Today was such a warm spring day and it seems to have put everyone in a much better mood, it really was great." You know exactly what I mean and you could read it a month from now and it still has meaning.

Remember what you post here will not be gone tomorrow and it can be read by people all over the world their weather and time are not the same as yours.

Michael,

Without presuming to have correctly interpreted all metaphors, I believe the allusion is to a popular feeling in the days immediately subsequent to the November election.

Openly political, religious and other non-painterly divisive topics (not that there aren't divisive painterly topics) are generally discouraged here as a matter of practical decorum, as they throw all the Forum gyro mechanisms into decalibration.

Even these months later, I'm enjoying the weather -- though it's not too late in the northern year for a frost, and you have to watch the new shoots in the garden, the days warm enough now for those opportunistic rabbits to look for easy pickin's.