Keeping Mum

Dearly Beloved Bloggers, we are gathered here today to say a prayer over the little fall chrysanthemum above.

Oh please, dear one, stay strong. Live in spite of me. Please overlook the horticultural crimes of my past.

I, Jenny Perot, take you, Chrysanthemum, to be my Fall Plant.

I promise to faithfully water you.

But not too much.

I promise I will not forget that you exist.

I will bring you inside in times of frost and out when sunny.

I vow to keep and care for you as long as you continue to bloom.

Amen.