Joys of Autumn

Yep, lay the blame fair and square!

That'll be your fault Bags if you've got snow up there.

It's gone blooming cold in our back garden!

Only on the windward slopes. It's not (shh!) winter snow.

Oh my! Now that the cloud that was covering it has been blown off, there's a faint covering of whiteness on the Cobbler! Can't see Beinn Ime or Beinn Narnain as they are still cloud-covered.

I did see that there was snow forecast for Glencoe and Ben Nevis, but they are a bit away.

Thought it was a bit chilly today, though hedging is a warming activity

Butternut !

Yes. Nice bit of summer here.

Back to big clear skies, sunshine and warmth - wonderful.

Spot on J - Lovely, lovely September days.

Anon does write a very nice poem

"September is one of the loveliest months of the year to be out and about in the countryside; there are still warm days to be enjoyed. There is a certain luminous quality about the light at this time of the year too; a soft and warm glow that picks out the reds and oranges of flowers in the garden. With harvest festivals, and a harvest moon, it is a time to be thankful for another good year in the garden."

Lovely.

By all these lovely tokens
September days are here
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer.
Anon

I just read that on a garden centre website. Nice isn't it?

Autumn asters are ready to open too, and the sedums are turning pink - the bees love them. I've got both the green and red leaved ones. Weather is dreadful now- after a heat wave at 35+C, it is now 14 and wind, rain, rain and more rain (:

I adore the Helford River, dahlia - many happy holidays in that area with the children when they, and we, were young.

The summer has been so disappointing, I'm hoping for an Indian summer as we had last year. I really love autumn (and it is the first day of September tomorrow), having learned "Ode to Autumn" at junior school. I recall the lovely words as I watch the butterflies among the bright yellow rudbeckia, on the pink sedums and pottering around the fragrant monarda, and as we had a rare day of sunshine today, it was really lovely. And the robins have started singing again, a true sign of the turning of the seasons.
Loved the poem, Butty - beautiful and evocative.
The holidaymakers should be leaving soon, so tomorrow if the sun does come out again we will drive over to the Helford and sit on "our" beach. Cornwall hasn't looked its best this summer!

We have huuuuge boletes in the garden already. The roe deer seem to like them. Quite an autumn chill in the air this evening too. I've shut the storm doors for the first time in ages. They usually stand open all summer, except for during storms from the NE or E, but whe it starts getting dark by bedtime again and waking up time, and it's chilly too, it's time to shut them at night.

Lovely morning light today just before and just after sunrise. I love the autumn sunrises.

Autumn crocuses in the back fields - a definite sign of autum. Will be off mushroom hunting soon

Just near where I live a magnolia has several blooms on it! Spring again!

Evocative and beautiful butty, but no, I don't want it to happen yet!

Anno

Lovely picture, Butty. Eat your heart out, John Keats!

Summer's passing, turning
Beginning to turn
Into Autumn
Of skies,
Clean clear blue
Holding scruffy puffballs clouds,
Chased with southerly winds
Masking chills to come.

Rose hips, shiny, mist blushed
Some crinkled brown
Hang among inside out blown leaves
Of still bright green wisteria
While brittle tan once green grass
Awaits cooler times
To revive it's thirst

Barn Owl feathers dot the garden
Of spring, summer growth
That's soon to pass, turning
Beginning to turn
Into Autumn,
And a lone yellow rose
Holds on.

We have conkers in the forest..

It's good to have a smile at the start of a day.

Pink clouds at sunrise
When I looked up from my reading.

Today I was horrified to see all the winter flowering pansies, violas etc. on sale at the local plant nursery. With the darker mornings too, it really feels autumnal!

Ripe blackberries and rowanberries. Must be autumn.
Birch leaves falling. Must be autumn.

No heating on yet. Must be.... Oh, wait!