Seasonal colours

 

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It’s the first “cobwebby” day today.  A heavy dew and a misty morning, typical of the season but in this unseasonally warm and humid weather we’re having right now, it came as a surprise.

 

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I love to see the hammock-like structures there in the garden even if I’m not quite so fond of the creatures who were clever enough to build them!

 

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Anyway, we thought it time to bring in some of the fruit which has been weighing down the branches of the trees for the last few weeks.  It’s a bumper crop out there and we have an abundance of apples and plums. 

 

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Not only are they there in quantity, I can’t remember there being such a glorious wealth of colour in previous years.

 

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The sight of these beautiful rosy red apples hanging from the branches was like an illustration from a child’s story book.  They taste a little too perfumed for my liking, but they bake well and they’ll find their way into one or two pies and crumbles in the next few weeks, I know.

 

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The plums are so pretty too, with that bluish haze on them.

 

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The leaves haven’t quite begun to turn yet, but the colours of autumn are here in a different form, for sure.

Around to it.

Around to it.

On a day like this