Only Today

It has taken me all week to clean the majority of surfaces on the first floor of a tiny house. That amounts to about 350 square feet of floor space. There are still a couple of items left to tend to.

I think I have a cleaning problem.

Or a dirt problem.

Or a stuff problem. It keeps accumulating. I'm gathering moss.

But, too bad. Rain, maybe snow and some cold is coming. Gorgeous fall was happening today.

There is no guarantee of what will come out the other side.

So I stepped out for a slow walk and to ponder.

I can clean something else tomorrow.

This is happening today.

Soon my junk will be exposed.

I have been plotting a trip to the metal recycle. That may happen at some point. My baby Gold Rush Dawn Redwood was doing full fall today.

It has pretty much sat there for three years. My hope is all its growth is going into a robust root system and one day it will surprise me and take off. It has a unique for this forest leaf texture and fall color.

I wandered through the garden and looked at its ever growing bone structure.

I can truly see this garden maturing into less and less maintenance and more structure in perfect time for my decrepitude.

It is already at a point where the major editing is done by June. Then I putter and pretty much let the garden be what it wants to be until the winter chop down begins. And that depends on winter making the first move.

It is cleaner. More stuff was put away. I'm thinking a good purge might be just the thing for a snowy winter day.

Just remember, always stop a moment and take in the fall. Nothing is clean forever.