Lots of green still.
One sharp frost and the trees will turn overnight but for now basking in this Indian summer (why an Indian summer?).
Friday 30 September 2011
Friday 30.09.2011
Last day of September and the woods were gleaming and steaming like a jungle,the overnight dew evaporating away in the warmth of the morning sun.
Lots of green still.
One sharp frost and the trees will turn overnight but for now basking in this Indian summer (why an Indian summer?).
Lots of green still.
One sharp frost and the trees will turn overnight but for now basking in this Indian summer (why an Indian summer?).
Tuesday 27 September 2011
Tuesday 27.09.2011
It was all skies this evening, the sun dropping down beneath grey clouds,
then fringing them in rainbow(silver linings are so last year).
The blustery wind was warm - somehow a very romantic combination - and the birds swooped and tumbled backwards and forwards across the dramatic backdrop.
But fashion is such a fickle mistress......rainbows were out and corals were in by the time we were coming back.........
Magic mushrooms? Who needs them?
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then fringing them in rainbow(silver linings are so last year).
The blustery wind was warm - somehow a very romantic combination - and the birds swooped and tumbled backwards and forwards across the dramatic backdrop.
But fashion is such a fickle mistress......rainbows were out and corals were in by the time we were coming back.........
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Saturday 24 September 2011
Saturday 24.09.2011
Gorgeous day, warm and sunny but with cooling breeze making walking a joy. To Bennachie after a morning at work: a keep-walking-until-you fall-off-the-edge sort of day so having hit Mither Tap in good order....
...we headed across to Oxen Craig,
thirsty work
but worth it.
Words are inadequate...not to say unnecessary....for this kind of a day.
...we headed across to Oxen Craig,
thirsty work
but worth it.
Words are inadequate...not to say unnecessary....for this kind of a day.
Friday 23 September 2011
23.09.2011
Greys, whites and blues, a cool breeze on the hill but calm and peaceful in amongst the trees. The grass has been baled, collected in and is probably wrapped in black plastic by now, the straw is nearly done and the familiar bale-statues are appearing all over the countryside.......
.......the air is so thick with `autumny` smells the dogs don`t know where to bury their noses first,the swallows and martins are beginning to pack their bags and in the distance this morning the first gaggle of noisy geese heading out: perhaps they`ve heard about the forecast October snows......
.....and if that makes you think of Christmas herewith an early plug for the new cards from Merry Illuminations (link on the right)....and I get no commission.......
.....and if that makes you think of Christmas herewith an early plug for the new cards from Merry Illuminations (link on the right)....and I get no commission.......
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Tuesday 20.09.2011
First talk of snow today - forecast for October they say!
No sign of it tonight but a certain valedictory something in the air: a cool breeze ruffling the grass and trees, somehow suggesting that it might soon be time to start battening down the hatches.
Still there`s that sense of being poised, like Janus, between seasons: a second cut of fresh green grass waits to be baled -
while in a neighbouring field it`s rows of straw -
with combines near and far thundering up and down as the light fades but the weather holds.
Briefly a grey crocodile sails across the sky........
.....we wander through a landscape of illuminated trees.....
....golden skies.....
...oh, and conveniently abandoned baths.
I was going to quote bits from the sainted Monsieur Daniel Pennac, (see post 30.08.2011)having managed, in the interim between posts and largely due to jaunts up and down the country on trains, to finish a second of his books and one of his recommended novels. For now, suffice to say that anyone who has anything to do with children and books, or just people and books for that matter, should put everything else down and read Rights of the Reader immediately, not to say urgently.
More, probably much more, later.
No sign of it tonight but a certain valedictory something in the air: a cool breeze ruffling the grass and trees, somehow suggesting that it might soon be time to start battening down the hatches.
Still there`s that sense of being poised, like Janus, between seasons: a second cut of fresh green grass waits to be baled -
while in a neighbouring field it`s rows of straw -
with combines near and far thundering up and down as the light fades but the weather holds.
Briefly a grey crocodile sails across the sky........
.....we wander through a landscape of illuminated trees.....
....golden skies.....
...oh, and conveniently abandoned baths.
I was going to quote bits from the sainted Monsieur Daniel Pennac, (see post 30.08.2011)having managed, in the interim between posts and largely due to jaunts up and down the country on trains, to finish a second of his books and one of his recommended novels. For now, suffice to say that anyone who has anything to do with children and books, or just people and books for that matter, should put everything else down and read Rights of the Reader immediately, not to say urgently.
More, probably much more, later.
Wednesday 7 September 2011
07.09.2011
Swift hike up Oxen Craig after work. Busy cloudscapes coiling and stretching and billowing across the sky, dropping rain one minute, then clearing to reveal blue sky and sun.
Trees as sculpture in the woods below:
on the top,rocks,stones and sweeping views
....and let`s get out of here before we get really wet.......
Trees as sculpture in the woods below:
on the top,rocks,stones and sweeping views
....and let`s get out of here before we get really wet.......
Sunday 4 September 2011
Sunday 04.09.2011
Day off. Stunning September morn. What to do first? Chores? Walk? No contest.
Dew still on the grass though warm sun had dried it out by the time we turned for home.
Brief update on poultry:
- chickens fat and thriving,still laying an egg a day - hence the six-egg fruit cake I made yesterday
- ducks as nervous and ridiculous looking as ever
-geese, one-parent family, happy enough but sooner or later I`m going to have to try and find out what gender the young one is, a good deal easier written than done.........
Dew still on the grass though warm sun had dried it out by the time we turned for home.
Brief update on poultry:
- chickens fat and thriving,still laying an egg a day - hence the six-egg fruit cake I made yesterday
-geese, one-parent family, happy enough but sooner or later I`m going to have to try and find out what gender the young one is, a good deal easier written than done.........
Thursday 1 September 2011
Thursday 01.09.2011
August may have gone out on a grey and chilly note but tonight was a perfect September evening, much milder, the sky a watercolour wash of blues and golds,whites and greys
with the sun somehow managing to recall the summer just gone while simultaneously heralding the arrival of autumn, a clever trick that must have something to do with the quality of the light.
September really can be the best of months.
with the sun somehow managing to recall the summer just gone while simultaneously heralding the arrival of autumn, a clever trick that must have something to do with the quality of the light.
September really can be the best of months.
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