Joys of Autumn

Hello October!
Windswept wet drizzle blowing across the study window, and a red squirrel nibbling away on the Mistle Thrush's tree.

Brilliant on front of house with cloudless blue sky!
Back of house, dark clouds.
Guess where I'm going to have my coffee!

Not a single hazelnut growing on my tree, which looks perfectly healthy. I can see it being replanted in the woods and being left to its own devices.

So do I Bags ...but it is even nicer when it starts mid to late September after a wonderful summer. Oh where is the ????

Masses of hazelnuts appearing?

Maybe I should have called this thread "Don't read this if you want summer to last and last!"

Yellow birch leaves falling from tree today. Only a few, but it has started.

I like autumn.

The cherry trees are dropping yellowing spotted leaves with abandon! They are sticky. It's a blight I think - they did the same thing four years ago when the weather was equally as wet and damp. It looks like Autumn, but am not convinced just yet.

Sorry! It starts early in the Far North though. Still plenty of warm days ahead

Please don't mention the A word. I'm still looking forward to summer.

AUTUMN yiiiiiiiikkkkkkeeeesssssss NO!

Give us a bit of Summer first, please.