Hints of Autumn

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?

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-

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

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.

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 noticed an autumnal nip in the air in the evening.

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.

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

Lovely flowers Lisagran

lemongrove

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

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

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