Joys of Autumn

Nope, its not autumn until they stop the Bands in the Park on Sunday afternoons.

Lawn is still growing - can't be autumn

So many flowers in the garden - can't be autumn

I'm wearing a T shirt - can't be autumn

Windows are open - can't be autumn

and so on and so on..................

That is great Soop to so love where you live.
I do love the colours when Autumn starts to appear but I think the first Spring colours must be favourite - heralding more hopes of perhaps a good warm summer - I hate damp cool days when it should be warm.

The hill across the loch has turned into a rainbow [rainbow]

Lovely, soop - I won't forget the 'skittish Scottish waves'. Reminds me of my childhood so much...
jeni, I enjoyed your poem - made me smile - glad Gransnet means as much to you as it does to me.

Dogsrel not verse!

jeni Your verse was uplifting.
Bags beautiful - as ever.
Butter you are special.
Now I'm off to prepare for the six o'clock G&T. Enjoy your evening.

soop So musical - I could hear it! Thank you.

Jeni - I'm glad you'll stay. Here's a little !

jeni + soop (in no particular order)

soop
jeni

I can see Wales
I wish it was whales
For then there'd be sun
And I'd not be glum

But while I've GRANSNET
It's sunny all day,
I'll get to my iPad
And therei I will stay

Talking to friends
From near and afar
From Scotland to clevedon
I don't travel far.

They are all here
So here I will stay
And cheer myself up
On this gloomy day I wish!

Skittish Scottish waves
tickle the shore.
The pebbles chuckle
as they nudge each other.
A crow rises from the beach
drops a shell from a height
and is duly rewarded with the morsal within.
The wind shifts
billowing clouds above
and gently bends the willow below.
I love this place.

Sorry Ladies - I never take photos apart from in my head! OH is a brilliant photographer and he has taken some amazing photos of the meadows- but he is allergic to Forums! I'll will ask him again - can't but try.

Send us some photos please!

And me!

I'm not one for harbouring a longing to travel, jura, but I really would like to see Swiss summer meadows. They sound glorious.

The wild flower meadows are just amazing at the moment, no sign of autumn anywhere, I have to say. Fields full of astrantias, and many types of wild geraniums, yellow digitalis, Sainfoin, many different types of hairbells and gentians, and so many more.

The pretty copper foliage on my ornamental crab trees has gone all musty looking and is fast falling off. The rowans and acers are perfectly OK - but those poor malus!

Your cosy home sounds a very peaceful place to be this morning, B.

Yellow birch leaves float, periodically, past the window
Travelling north-west to south-east.
A wood pigeon sits hunched near the top of an ash tree
That catches the nor'wester
And dances the tree as it blows through.
The sycamores, sturdier and stubbier trees,
Just rattle their keys.
Inside, I've lit the fire anent the damp
Summer-autumn.
Cosy,
And glad to be so

Well, that's where they've all gone to - Bristol! Even the cabbage whites seem to be missing from here, though I bet that if I tried growing rocket on the outside window sill, they'd emerge in their thousands to lay their eggs on it, as they did two years ago.

Getting quite lot of red admirals!

Butterflies? Poor things have been washed out. Normally the red admirals like nettles of which I seem to have an increasing number.

Lucky butty!

Saw a lot of ringlet butterflies yesterday. Officially they like bramble blossom, which we have, but they also seemed to like common cat's ear.

Another nice breeze (force three or four) for DD's sailing and no rain so far.

Mistlethrush! Red squirrel!