When these flowers start to bloom it means we are in the last days of summer and the cool days and nights of autumn and school will still be here.

We are reading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. I love her Prologue and I was thinking of it all last week on my nature walks.

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of Autumn, but the first week of August is motionless and hot."