Enjoying summer

Like Sherri, I don't want to think of what will come after the autumn time. I was sitting on my back patio the other evening and had to chuckle about the before and after photos I have of our back patio area. It is very obvious which is the before and after photos of our impatient plants. I never dreamed they would do this well. The wind played havoc with them the other day, but they stood back up straight and tall, Should they get much bigger I won't have much walkway to enter the back gate.
On one side is the impatient flower bed and on the other is the rose bush that has gone simply wild. The corner flower bed, I wanted moon flowers, but they only had the climbing vines when I went to Farmers Market, so I got two, they were only 2 1/2 inches tall. I planted them so I could have them use the tomato metals to spin up, but oh my, they have taken over the whole fence. Our side and the neighbors side. I had gotten some seeds from Patrick McDaniel of the regular moon flower plants, but I wasn't sure if they would grow this year or not. They did grow they are entwined with the vine ones, and have pushed their noses to the top and out the side. So I have to different kinds of moon flowers in my corner.
The rose bush that Bud told me in the spring I would have to replace simply amazes me. It is now almost as tall as the fence, tied back to the fence with ribbon and yarn so that we are able to come in the back gate.
Sitting on the patio in the evening it is so lovely to smell the moon flowers and to occasionally see a hummingbird visit us there.
The rose bush too is pushing its way to the other side of the fence and we have a rose on the outside of the fence where I park. Becky the site manager told us that our back patio area is by far the prettiest this summer.
So, no I don't want summer to end. After all when the frost freezes all this stuff, it will mean I have to go out there and remove all of it and start all over next year. One good thing --I bet I won't have to replant the moon flowers they will probably reseed themselves. So who knows how many plants we will have there next year.