Hints of Autumn

Driving home today I noticed the leaves of some birch trees have already turned golden. Too early!

Lovely arrangement Lisa.....you and your jugs again ?

I have to pick flowers furtively (DH hates them going missing)
Haha.

lemongrove

Lovely flowers Lisagran

Rowan trees covered in red berries ready for the birds to store. Usually a sign of a hard winter.

Tawny owls, kicking their young out to fend for themselves because harvest is done and dusted.

Quite a racket at the edge of our field last night. A lot of Too Witting and Too Wooing scrapping going on.

Definitely noticed an autumnal nip in the air in the evening.

Gosh, harvest must come early these days.

It's only mid-August, everyone should still be sunning themselves on beaches

I remember Harvest Festival was always in September.
Is that because GM crops mature early?

Definitely not BradfordLass!! We don't grow GM crops here except as experiments and import a limited amount for animal feed.

Farmers have generally always harvested cereal crops in August - that is why we have the traditional long school holidays then, so that children could help in days gone by.

Fruit, some vegetables eg pumpkins, ripen later so apples etc are harvested in September, October and the Harvest Festival is after all is 'safely gathered in'.

Just when you think it feels autumnal the temperature is set to go up again next weekend.

Harvest Festivals are around the time of the nearest full moon to the autumn equinox.

Cooler evenings and changing leaves here too- Starlings have begun to gather and I haven't seen any oriole for weeks- Hummingbirds are feeding heavily as are bees-

I m hanging onto my shorts, weather reports are next three weeks to be nice warm and summery the only reason I fear autumn is the thought of winter taking over
What made you think we had genetically modified crops bradfordlass most people are against them here Do you have them over there?

I, too, love the colours of Autumn, but where I live, I am really looking forward to Spring after a very wet and quite chilly Winter.

Had the first ?of the season at the weekend, me my daughter three grandchildren in screaming hysterics, two marginally braver sent to vacuum it up.

Autumn definitely on the way!

Definitely an autumnal feel to the air when I walked the dogs this morning. Lovely, absolutely my favourite season. Hopefully the flies which have been a really big problem this year will disappear.

down here in dorset it's still summer although the days are getting a little shorter. weather forecast for the week shows not a drop of rain.

Beautiful bouquet Lisagran ..

Unfortunately, the first sign of Autumn here has been three weeks of blinding rain and the forecast is for more rain!

October weather imo winds and cool, and rain..

In August!

merlotgran
I love owls. Wish I could have heard them. Only hear them here in dead of a winter's night if I wake up at 3am!

Oh no! I'm still waiting for summer. Two very hot days in July isn't enough.

I had considered putting away the summer clothes as it's been chilly this last week.(cardis in full use). But the weather man says it could be back to 27 degrees by Friday, so maybe it's not quite autumn yet.

Another simply beautiful arrangement Lisagran, far nicer than bought flowers.
I do sometimes wish I had a bigger garden but will plant the small plot with plenty of autumn colour such as dogwood.
Can you recommend any small bushes to go in half barrel tubs? Something that looks good all year round. Thank you.