noticeably shorter days

Can you feel the days getting shorter? We are only ten days from daylight savings. We have less than 11 hours of daylight now in Minneapolis. In two months from today, on the winter solstice, we will have exactly three hours less daylight than today. Wowza, that feels fast to me for some reason. Anyway, this dahlia, to me, embodies the sun. I think I will put it on my bookshelf as a talisman of spring’s returning warmth.

I put this dahlia in the dehydrator. It was one of those plate sized flowers. Dried it is the size of my palm.