Joys of Autumn

AUTUMN yiiiiiiiikkkkkkeeeesssssss NO!

Give us a bit of Summer first, please.

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

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

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.

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.

Masses of hazelnuts appearing?

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

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.

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

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

Mistlethrush! Red squirrel!

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.

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

Getting quite lot of red admirals!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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

And me!

Send us some photos please!

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.

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.