Signs of autumn
Sep. 24th, 2013 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe couple who grow winter vegetables are back at the Farmers' Market; they sell the crispest, sweetest beetroot, and big flavourful carrots. Last week thay also had those green cauliflowers with the fractal florets, and seemed a little bewildered by them.
I've seen a car with a 63 (autumn 2013 - spring 2014) registration number: usually these start to appear on the roads in the first week of September, but this year I was beginning to think they'd pushed the changeover back another month: I didn't see one until the 21st, and I've still only seen the one.
And speaking of September 21st: we're past the equinox.
The brambles which I have failed to hack back in the garden have been fruiting heavily. Yesterday I gathered a pound of fruit, and a robin came to supervise. We also have elderberries: there were stewed pears and elderberries for dinner.
The sign has gone up at the swimming pool: from next Monday, the University will have three lanes from six until nine every morning (and four lanes on Tuesdays). Individual students are already appearing: there were a lot of tall young men charging purposefully up and down the pool this morning.
I don't know what's so autumnal about spider webs - even first thing in the morning, strung with dew. But there seemed to have been an overnight spinning competition at Pennyferry bridge: at each point where the vertical support meets the top rail, the corner was filled with a neat web.
I've seen a car with a 63 (autumn 2013 - spring 2014) registration number: usually these start to appear on the roads in the first week of September, but this year I was beginning to think they'd pushed the changeover back another month: I didn't see one until the 21st, and I've still only seen the one.
And speaking of September 21st: we're past the equinox.
The brambles which I have failed to hack back in the garden have been fruiting heavily. Yesterday I gathered a pound of fruit, and a robin came to supervise. We also have elderberries: there were stewed pears and elderberries for dinner.
The sign has gone up at the swimming pool: from next Monday, the University will have three lanes from six until nine every morning (and four lanes on Tuesdays). Individual students are already appearing: there were a lot of tall young men charging purposefully up and down the pool this morning.
I don't know what's so autumnal about spider webs - even first thing in the morning, strung with dew. But there seemed to have been an overnight spinning competition at Pennyferry bridge: at each point where the vertical support meets the top rail, the corner was filled with a neat web.
