It's Fall! - no, spring.... no, it's Fall again....

This Thanksgiving holiday has been a shot of "indian summer" - temperatures up to 78 F degrees (a tie with the record high in 1991). It was a lovely time to be out cleaning up garden beds, harvesting pomegranates and, surprise!, some lovely pineapple guava fruits. Didn't even know they were there, the small green fruits hide in the foliage so well. What a treat - truly, I consider ripe feijoa fruits - ripe, mind you, not the acidic ones found half-ripe in the supermarkets - one of the most fabulous fruits you can grow in the mid-Atlantic. They are such a treat and our bushes are finally getting old enough to give us a little harvest of half a dozen fruits. These are perfect fruit plants, they require no spraying and only an occasional bite of fertilizer and a bit of pruning to keep them from overgrowing their space against the house. Their foliage stays the same all year, lovely teal-green with silver underneath each leaf. Their flowers are fabulous... and delicious! And then to top it off with mouth-watering fruits in the fall? My, now THIS is a plant to be thankful for!

But the rains have come while I'm typing and the temperature is falling with the rising wind. It will be in the 40's, they say, by tomorrow morning. But at least I had the joy of puttering outside all day today. And, yes, I'm thankful.