Watching nature at its best whilst walking/driving along the countryside.
Soops place of refuge and friends
What's going on , on the street outside your home right now?
As I am sitting in the South of France covered in mosquito bites,make up sliding off my face and feeling in need of another shower an hour after the last one!
It got me to thinking about my winter boots, cashmere jumpers,casseroles, sweeping leaves,peat fires,mash potatoes and long walks..
What are you looking forward to?
Let’s keep this one positive…..no mention of fuel bills please?
Watching nature at its best whilst walking/driving along the countryside.
Woolly socks.
Woolly jumpers.
Autumn leaves.
Hot chocolate in my flask on a long walk.
The fantastic autumn flower beds at a local garden open to the public.
No more fruit flies (they have been bad this year)
Autumn is a lovely colourful season GSM BUT it is a wicked witch leading me with a rye smile into the cold miserable dark cold days of winter it s the time of dying immediately before death
Now spring leads me into warmth, lighter nights and mornings and the fantastic thoughts, of new, of beginnings with all the hope of growth I can throw off the drab heavy clothes and let my body feel the warmth and my eyes see the sun and bright skies the birds trees and flowers all starting again
I m not a winter person
Do you have SAD BlueBelle?
That sounds very poetic, Bluebelle ?
I do prefer spring, April and May are the best months, ones to look forward too after the cold of winter, but I don't mind cosy, darker evenings of autumn.
We learnt this poem in primary school:
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,--
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Drawn curtains, longer nights, and not even acknowledging the door bell once it goes dark.
Love the different seasons each one brings, but autumn is definitely my favourite, the colours and the freshness of the air, the blue skies on a good day, no midges!! Only thing I don't enjoy about it is the shorter days looming ahead!
The cold autumnal weather (no rain) crisp, bright mornings
Sitting on the sofa with My Man wrapped in My blanket watching a film ...with Candles... glass of the hard stuff....the simple things ?
Love the John Keats poem Calistemon.
Just sums the Autumn up for me.
Being able to take my Boxers for a good run without worrying about them getting overheated (short muzzles!) and not having to mow and strim all the grass!!
Soups, stew& dumplings, son is back at college so saving on the eternal gaming, watching leaves turn in park opposite new home. (But OP just seems like a chance to show off that theyre in south of france right now!)?
TanaMa
Being able to take my Boxers for a good run without worrying about them getting overheated (short muzzles!) and not having to mow and strim all the grass!!
LOL I first thought you were going for a run in your boxer - shorts!
Love walks with my grandchildren, finding conkers and pine cones with my GS, autumn trees, Halloween (trick or treating, dressing up, pumpkins and parties!), cosy evenings, snuggly clothes, casseroles, steamed puddings and (best of all!) looking forward to the festive season just around the corner! Autumn-what’s not to love!?
I look forward to lighting the log burner and cosy nights by the fire. Also love walking in the fog, so mysterious and eerie. I know I'm strange lol
I love the colours of autumn, with long dog walks kicking the crunchy golden leaves. Warm jumpers and coordinating scarves as I'm always a chilly mortal. I dislike winter so I'm not looking forward to that. I wear colourful clothes through winter as they cheer me up and can't understand why everyone looks so dull in dark garments. It's depressing.
Walking the dogs in cool weather.
Everything listed plus: LONG SLEEVES ? fed up sick and tired of bare arms legs and flipflops! Yearning now to get out the20(yep) pairs of boots and to cuddle my arms up! I adore the autumnal change and do some of my very best artwork in this time along with winter.summer offers little to me by the way of inspiration, dying embers of summer and slumbering nature is so much more interesting!
GBBO! And I love bright frosty mornings.
Wrapping up in a nice baggy soft jumper and going for a long walk through the beautiful red & golden trees and then crunching through the fallen leaves with the GC & my dog.
I’m hoping to catch up on some reading, I have a pile of books waiting. I also love Strictly so settling down on a Saturday night, all cosy with my candles lit with a nice glass of red wine to watch that.
Bluebell beautifully put and echoes my feelings. I love spring and summer, despite being born in the autumn/winter.
I try to be positive about autumn, but unfortunately it is such a brief window of pretty colours before degenerating into winter. I find it depressing to be honest - my summer plants all going over, having to wrap our caravan up for the winter, the lack of decent motorcycling weather and events (and I'm conscious my motorcycling days are getting less and less), and I absolutely detest having to wear layers of thick clothing (especially with the dire heating situation we're facing) - I feel very claustrophobic being muffled up, stuck indoors and the lack of daylight hours and bright weather. And don't get me going about winter - vile season!
I suppose my positive take is that I will plant bulbs as something to look forward to in early spring - I will get some of those mixed bags of bulbs so that it will be a nice surprise seeing what actually comes up where.
Thick opaque tights
We also live in the south of France, last year we spent winter in Portugal so I haven’t really experienced a proper Autumn/winter for a while. Since the birth of my grandson in the Uk I’m increasingly drawn to home, I don’t want to miss him growing up. I miss the seasons, the beautiful English gardens and countryside, wild weather, cosy fires, squirrelling away preserves shining like jewels on a shelf , soup, deep casseroles and fruit cakes. Yes home and Autumn is definitely calling.
Autumn trees in lovely colours, Cool days and long jumpers.
Half term visits from daughters and grandsons. Dumplings and homemade chicken stew/soup. Autumn generally. We have splendid ones in East Anglia. For me it's our best season. I love looking forward.
I feel so privileged to love all seasons, winter and all, so autumn does not herald misery for me.
But yes, autumn is my favourite, perhaps.
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