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Slaying the Giants of Summer

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Mammoth Sunflower Seed head       ...Fall is creeping into Ohio as I enjoy the warm sunny day here in Ohio.  The trees are starting to show a bit of orange and gold tipping the leaves.   The breeze carries a new fragrance that lets one know this is fall.  I love September!  It is also my birthday month.  Johnny Appleseed and I share the day.  I can hardly wait for the best of the cider to start flowing with the fall Ohio harvest.       Today I chopped down the dried and spent stalks of the mammoth sunflowers that I have so enjoyed all summer.  Though they are gone I still have plenty of photos of their huge smiling faces.  Carpe Diem, seize the day!  Time to make fall displays of mums and asters! All  my herbs are trying to finish up for the season.  Sadly, all my basils are done for the summer.  It was a season that was all too short here in Ohio. With the joy of harvesting fragrant herbs I realized that it was the last of the season to be enjoyed.  When I notice the neighborhoo