Sunday 29 September 2019

Dwindling ...



...the number of posts and the number of readers I suspect


and the harvest too


but it was a good year for French beans
and I will definitely grow them again.




Sissinghurst and Great Dixter continue to mellow beautifully




 and there is an exciting new place to visit,
Tillingham, a biodynamic vineyard, 
with rooms and a restaurant in the heart 
of the Sussex countryside.


There was a son in San Francisco


and another newly established in Tokyo.



This butterfly looks a little how I feel.
I'm never good with the shortening days



and this seems to have been a particularly swift descent into Autumn.
Pencil sharpening, new term feelings were not as marked as in previous years
but for this one


a fifth birthday


and an exciting first week at big school are under her belt.



For now, in these troubling times,
I seek solace in scenes like those above,
the writings of Gladys Taber, (thanks Nan)


and seek to adopt the Zen-like attitude
of this ram.


See you, I hope,
before we all fall over the cliff.