The thinking season

Return to shades of green (napa cabbage growing in the field)

This weather makes me think.  Just imagine us sitting there with our chins propped up in our hands, thinking about next season.  It’s not entirely logical.  We are smack in the middle of a delicious pepper harvest, and a bumper okra crop, not to mention tending the fledgling fall crops.  There is more time for thinking later, but the cool(er) breezes sweep through the open windows of our open hearts and settle us into some sort of resignation despite the logic.  We’ve still got months to go, but the return of various shades of green in the fields brings us round again to the renewal of our vows.  Not our wedding vows (though that probably isn’t a bad idea), but the vows of why we do what we do (trust me, it’s much better to do this in a cool September breeze than in high July).  It’s not a conscious decision, but just another cog in the wheel of the cycle of the seasons.  Call it the “thinking season.”