Last flowers (or last Rose of Summer) of Fall and snow supposed to be in our area tomorrow 10/28/2011

I have been working on cutting down some of my summer flowers and vegetable plants. This time of the year in our area is usually cooler and warmer some days.  I was so surprised to hear we are supposed to get a lot of snow in our area tomorrow.  The leaves are changing colors now, and are so beautiful.  I took a few pictures of some of my flowers that are still blooming.  We had a freeze overnight in our area.  That probably means winter isn't too far away.  I do have a few roses that are still blooming, but not many.  My tomato plants are now all dying.  Hopefully we won't get a lot of snow and have downed power lines or broken tree limbs.  Since the leaves are still on the trees, they could be broken tree limbs if there is enough of heavy snow.


The last rose of summer reminds me of the poem and song “The last Rose of Summer”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-P15xujxoI

Last Rose of Summer

'tis the last rose of summer, left blooming all alone
All her lovely companions are faded and gone.
No flower of her kindred, no rose bud is nigh
To reflect back her blushes and give sigh for sigh.

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one! to pine on the stem
Since the lovely are sleeping, go sleep thou with them
'thus kindly i scatter thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead.

So soon may i follow, when friendships decay
And from love's shining circle the gems drop away
When true hearts lie wither'd and fond ones are flown
Oh! who would inhabit this bleak world alone!

The Last Rose of Summer is a poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore, who was a friend of Byron and Shelley. Moore wrote it in 1805 while at Jenkinstown Park in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Sir John Stevenson set the poem to its widely-known melody, and this was published in a collection of Moore's work called Irish Melodies (1807–34). In Ireland, it is claimed that the melody was composed by George Alexander Osborne, a composer from Limerick City.


Norma