Love Is Like Autumn In The Garden

By Laura Miller|September 21, 2020
byLaura Miller
September 21, 2020

Autumn reminds me of love. It was the season I met my husband and it was the time of year we married. The smell of a bonfire, the cheering of football games and the brisk chill of fall air takes me back to our first year together – when love was new and wonderful. Love is like autumn in the garden too.

Why Love is Like Autumn

Love is an odd thing – kinda like finding a stray seed at the bottom of the seed box. You plant it never knowing whether it’s your prized heirloom pepper variety or a weedy F2 generation hybrid. It sprouts and grows slowly and surely, like love sometimes does.

然而,这需要几个月前你看到第一个超视距som. Then you must patiently wait for the fruit to develop. As it grows, you begin to see the true form of thepepper. Is it your prized heirloom pepper or that weedy F2 generation hybrid? Growing that unknown pepper is so much like falling in love.

And why do we sometimes savehybrid seeds?像园丁s, we know they don’t grow true to type. Yet, I find myself saving hybrid seeds almost in desperation. As if to safeguard against the possibility that I might not be able to buy that hybrid variety next year. After all, at least some of the seedlings will be the hybrid. Or will they?

Don’t we sometimes feel this way about love? We hang on to poor choices hoping to find what we are looking for? But a weedy F2 generation pepper plant will never grow our prized heirloom pepper. It doesn’t matter how many times we go back and check the plant. It’s always the same weedy pepper. Again, so much like love.

Autumn also reminds me of love because it’s the mature stage of the growing season. As love matures, the physical attraction which initially drew two people together transitions into deeper, more meaningful feelings. Isn’t thechanging of the leavessimilar to the way love changes?

As we head into autumn, the trees cease making chlorophyll. We no longer see the reflected green wavelengths. Instead, the underlying reds, oranges and golds appear. They were always there, but hidden inside the leaf, much like the true character of our significant other. Only when we look deeper, do we see the real person.

But most of all, autumn reminds me of love because it’s theharvest season. We reap the rewards of hard work andpreserve our bountyfor hard times ahead. Kinda sounds like love there too! The more we put into our relationships, the more we receive in return.

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  • Karen Shapiro
    Comment addedOctober 26, 2020 Reply

    Loved it!

  • Cathy
    Comment addedOctober 25, 2020 Reply

    ...and to value all plants that survived Phoenix's hottest summer. I lost several cacti, and apricot tree, and my beloved three tiered cactus this summer. I welcome autumn with open arms!

  • Bruce Hadfield
    Comment addedOctober 24, 2020 Reply

    Long engagements are a necessity when looking for that person to live with you forever and this is so true when we plant the garden, flower or vegetable and how true is GOD's word that states love never fails. We hoe tie up support cocose and feed those we love
    and what do we get but a crop of satisfying frutage weather turnip or children and it always depends on how we cultivate,inculcate or treat. just don't beat the beet or pull the grape too hard and in your hand you have your reward..BGH

  • Dusty & Karen Trail
    Comment addedOctober 24, 2020 Reply

    Loved the love is like autumn writing! Thanks so much. I sent it to a daughter who’s anniversary is today!

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