Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness

Autumn is definitely on the way here. The trees on the roadside are turning yellow. There is a chill in the air, and this morning everything looked crisp and clean on my way home from work. There are brambles ripening in the hedgerows, and the swallows and house martins are gathering together on the wires. Winter will be long and hard I think.
Brambles peeping through the Leylandii.

You've just remind me about the sloes! We look to have a good crop down the lane this year. Haven't finished last year's sloe gin yet!

Oh what a view that sounds LG. in which part of the UK do you live ?

We can always tell when autumn is just around the corner when we look out of our bedroom balcony doors in the morning, because there is a thread of mist tracking the river down in the valley.

Today, for the first time I noticed that the trees around our house are beginning to turn,

Autumn is also the time of hedgerow foraging; blackberries, sloes, damsons and greengages, even apples and later crab apples Brought home and eaten raw or frozen for later consumption.

Alright for some, Petra, lounging about on the beach there with an ice cream are you?
Alea, spiders like soup plates, shudder, that's the bit of early Autumn I hate.

Summer is gone! Not in Southend it hasn't. Still hot here.

Love that Alea

Very very fat fingers !!!
Meant to be CHAT
LOL

I didn't mean that rudely! (fat fingers)

Did you write it and why is it under 'Charities'? Fat fingers?