Harvest

[shewhomust]

It can't be autumn yet, surely? It's still August. But the heat has gone out of the weather, the days are shorter, the students are returning, and it is blackberry season:

It is nothing to boast about, that the brambles have overrun our garden: I have failed as a gardener, and as a responsible neighbour, too. But dirham_rambler goes out and gathers their fruit - this is the third or fourth bowlful, and not the largest, either. Yesterday we went to the little parade of shops at Cheveley Park, where there is a greengrocer (also a mini-Sainsbury's, a cashpoint and a charity shop) and bought cooking apples, and there will be apple-and-blackberries for dinner, and more to freeze...

I am so pleased to have found a greengrocer: I also bought Victoria plums and a perfectly ripw avocado (I made guacamole).

Comments

[athenais]

I woke up two days ago and knew autumn had come. It's the quality and angle of the light, the scent of the air, the lack of conviction of the day's heat.

[shewhomust]

Ha! But then there's never any conviction in an English summer ...

[anef]

This is Nature! And I have been ignoring our garden all summer so it is completely overgrown, but am now tidying it for autumn. But the insects have been happy, and are still buzzing desperately over the remaining ivy flowers.

[shewhomust]

Nature - red in tooth and claw, black in berry...