Saturday 21 November 2020

Saturday 21.11.2020

 That self-satisfied feeling when you`ve made the best of the day: brisk walk, shower, delicious homemade (before the walk) carrot and lentil soup and just about to settle down to watch the rugby.

Smug-ometer up to 11.

A beautiful day for walking, sunshine, blue sky and a keen swirly wind setting the metal gates singing, the wooden gates creaking and the trees swooshing and swishing.  Warmed up by the time we got up to the woods so sweater and scarf discarded in the entry.

 Haven`t had anything half-inched so far: frankly if folk are desperate enough to take my old sweater they`re welcome to it though I`d miss the scarf......

Though it was only just after midday the shadows were long......





.....the light diffused, perfectly setting off the autumn colours.



 




As I write, the sun is nearly below the horizon spreading yet more glorious colours across the sky - golden at the moment - it was all scarlet last night - and soon it will be dark enough to justify a wee dram and maybe some crisps - it is Saturday after all. I can wait `til half time I suppose. Autumn. What`s not to like?

Tuesday 17 November 2020

Tuesday 17.11.2020

 Very curious weather patterns: so mild today but with sleet and possibly snow forecast for Thursday. 

 Tonight up on the hill  the insects buzzed round the newly emerged gorse flowers making it all feel like a late summer evening, despite the lowering grey clouds while at the same time the crows made their evening commute across the sky to their roosts - a typical auttumn activity and the silhouettes were all about the impending winter.  

In another age it could be taken to presage all sorts of things....but then we are in the middle of a plague aren`t we so who knows..........




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Tuesday 10 November 2020

Tuesday 10.11.2020

 For the last two or three days, morning and night, we have been enveloped in a shawl of thick grey cloud. Some days it has lifted long enough to let the sun through for an hour or so but not today.

So it was cool and still grey, though the cloud had lifted a tad, when Dog 2 and I stepped out this afternoon for a stride round the woods. And in the damp, sharp air it was the scents of autumn that were the most striking: decay, degradation, mould and spoilage and yet somehow nostalgic and exhilarating. The only thing missing was a whiff of wood smoke.

So many sides to autumn too: days like today but also still-warm sun, long shadows, crimson skies, copper leaves, sparkling spiders` webs, golden stubble and that cry of wild geese overhead.  Never quite knowing what each day will bring, `tis my favourite season.