{"id":34212,"date":"2012-10-22T00:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34212"},"modified":"2012-10-22T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T04:22:56","slug":"under-overcast-skies-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=34212","title":{"rendered":"under overcast skies at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>We&#8217;ve been watching an old Swedish detective show, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wallander_(Swedish_TV_series)\">Wallander<\/a>, which is subtitled in English.  I&#8217;m crazy for that soft, muted Swedish light, which I can only imagine is similar to what we&#8217;ve been getting the past few days, creating a pale backdrop for the tetrapanax&#8217;s lengthening candelabra of flower buds.  Pearly, opalescent &#8212; all good words for describing the light the past couple days.  I love catching up on garden blogs this time of year, now that we&#8217;ve all turned that corner past summer, the fascinating descriptions of how the dream of the perfect summer garden is suspended for a short while, to be picked up again next spring.  So much momentous stuff happens to a garden in fall.  The first rains, first frost, fall color or a lack thereof.  For me every summer is another lesson in existentialism, a sweaty season to be experienced moment to moment.  Fall feels like taking charge of destiny again, making plans.  <em>I will go here, do this, that, and the other thing<\/em>.  If summer is body, autumn is mind.  Spring is emotion.  Winter is&#8230;I don&#8217;t know.  For dreaming?<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013259.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we&#8217;re all reviving under these much kinder skies.   Echeveria imbricata, plumped up and refreshed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013214.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Euphorbia lambii&#8217;s leaves have finally stopped drooping and yellowing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013232.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eryngium padanifolium made good size this summer, bottom left.  Those whipsawing, strappy leaves have the sinuous vitality of an octopus.  Agave desmettiana &#8216;Joe Hoak,&#8217; on the table, has been moved back into the gentler version of full sun offered in late October.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013209.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mist was heavy enough this morning to make the coronilla look like this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013297.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all started to come out of the shade and back under a much kinder sun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/oct2012\/P1013283.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been watching an old Swedish detective show, Wallander, which is subtitled in English. 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