We are fast approaching the Canadian Thanksgiving -- a holiday we personally think is much better situated in the calendar than its American counterpart. That holiday barely gives you time to finish up the leftovers before you're back into the turkey feast for Christmas!
Ours comes at a time when autumn is at its finest. Fabulous colours, crisp nights and still warm days. A snap in the air, a touch of frost, perhaps northern lights in the night sky. It's a time to bring in the harvest, and be grateful for the bounty. To put gardens to bed for the winter, and start dreaming about next year's plantings.
Autumn will give way to winter, with its own spectacular beauty, and winter will melt into spring flowers and running streams before we come back to summer. One of the great blessings of living in a temperate climate is that the seasons do change. I remember my dad stopping for gas on a vacation in Arizona. "Nice weather," he observed to the gas jockey, angling to open a conversation, "not a cloud in the sky."
"Yep," replied that stalwart, "Sun. Same as yesterday, same as the day before, same every 'bleeping' day that ever happens..." Dad got back in the car.
Now we like the sun as much as the next guy, but we also like the variety seasons bring...
And we love the chance to decorate, with cornstalks and flowers, to bring out the scarecrows and pumpkins, and just have fun with the season. Huntsville's main street hosts a Scarecrow Competition, and Sandhill Nursery builds a straw maze in one of the greenhouses -- and looks ahead to Christmas with a fully decorated house.
It seems everywhere you go, there are decorations celebrating the harvest.
We still have one cottage open for the Thanksgiving weekend. You should be here!
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