As the brightness of summer begins to fade, the woods around us grow ever lighter, gaining an almost fragile airiness. Windows appear in the canopy as leaves fall down into foosseling drifts below. Now there are just a few narrowly arched casements and tiny aureoles, but by November we will look through an astragal glazedContinue reading “Reflections on reflections”
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Beautiful bed blockers
The garden is bright now with turning leaves and still dotted the lingering flowers of the nicotiana planted in vast numbers in the spring. I have cleared out a few of the very tall white ones, which took to lurching drunkenly after some strong winds last week. The broken stems (or possibly the seed pods?)Continue reading “Beautiful bed blockers”
Foraging Season
It seems as though we stepped off the plane from Corfu straight into mid autumn. Whilst we were sunning ourselves the brambles and gooseberries had been and gone and the fat Ruthven blackbirds had stripped our rowan of berries. Sloes have also been few and far between this year. And so it was that whenContinue reading “Foraging Season”