Dead Flowers

I take a garbage bag out to the deck to gather the plants that have died. I definitely don't have a green thumb but at least you know I tried . End of Summer and the heat has left dead twigs where flowers once shone. A few hardy succulents still flourish but everything else is now gone. I apologize to each plant as it goes into the garbage bag at my side. Preparing the deck for the bareness of Fall now that Summer's blossoms have died. Clearing the deck at the end of the Summer is the " letting go" of the season. I can say it's because I'm cleaning for Fall but we know my neglect is the reason.