Sunday 14 October 2018

Sunday 14.10.2018

Storm Callum has been and gone and tonight you could hear a pin, or a leaf, drop.
Plenty of leaves had hung on, despite Callum`s fury and the evening light illuminated them,






while on the top of the hill, with the temperature plummeting and a crescent moon hanging in an ice blue sky, the colour intensified.











Fortuitously, when the stormy weather first arrived, the wind that we leaned into on the way up the road and which buffeted us around on the way back down was surprisingly warm. If it hadn`t been it would have required Everest-climbing gear.
It was the kind of weather you could almost have a conversation with as it tried to knock you off your feet: in the end joyous enough to make you laugh.
It was shirt-sleeves order in the woods where the sheltered trees hardly moved and despite the threat of rain it was yet another beautiful autumn day.








Then the deluge did arrive though for us"fools on the hill" thankfully no flooding and no sooner had it drenched the world than it moved on and we were left with another light show.






Meanwhile back at the ranch.......

....apple chutney, apple jelly, stewed apple, cider vinegar.......

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