Over the last few days I've noticed that everything is slowly starting to change so autumn is not really too far away.
It isn't only the trees whose leaves are looking tired and beginning to turn brown round the edges, or the rowan berries turning bright red, the elderberries turning black and the brambles giving up their sweet autumn harvest of delicious blackberries. Nor is it the tomatoes ripening on the vine in the garden or the sunflower heads whose petals have served their purpose and attracted the bees to pollinate them ensuring plenty of seed for the birds for winter.
It isn't the sun slowly getting lower in the sky each day or the plants in the garden putting on a final spurt of growth before it's too late, nor is it the spider's webs that suddenly cross the doorway in the night so that they stick to your face in the morning when you venture outside.
It isn't the dew that is reappearing on the leaves in the early morning, or the slight chill that is just becoming perceptible in the late evening. Nor is it the shrill 'tick, tick, tick' call of the robin as he marks the boundaries of his winter territory.
It isn't any of these things but all of them together........along with the calendar which is rapidly running out of August!
Hi Grandma,
ReplyDeleteI just mentioned to Ray this morning how much it was beginning to feel like autumn.
The spiders are spinning here too and I've already lost count of how many webs I've walked into. Gives me chills because I'm not sure where the spider is when I do it.
The dew is thick here in the mornings, as well as heavy fog. Entire rows of trees disappear on the hillsides until the sun burns away their misty blanket.
Our blackberries have ripened and fallen away and our tomato vines have been pulled and added to the compost bin after having withered from a case of wilt. We had more than enough tomatoes and are looking forward to improving our tomato gardening techniques next year.