Goodnight friends! Growing cooler and feeling more damp today, about 16°c and half-way overcast, clear patches of sky and flashes of brightness bringing fleeting warmth ans casting brief fluttering shadows but not able to dry out the soil. An inky, sour funk on the fitful breeze, curling fallen leaves forming shallow basins of last night’s rainwater. Spectacular density of hawthorn berries, a stippled wall of crimson as the leaves fall away. Opportunistic tufts of young green gass pressing through the collapsed, limp sere stems of summer, making the most of the fitful sunlight.
Not much creative drive today, letting things percolate a little, but a nice mix of other activities. A walk and some stretches and a long phone chat with a friend, some household pottering and maintenance. A faint grinding tightness of discomfort, pangs of joint stiffness and icy piercing pain, but fortunately nothing too lasting or severe.
May we find a sense of play, curiousity and experimentation in our lives today!
Image ID: Photo of two yellow fieldcap mushrooms freshly sprouting from inky-dark damp soil, pale buttery yellow caps still tightly furled jellybean shapes.
Photo of a red admiral butterfly feeding on a spike of pink buddleja with wings half-open, revealing bright scarlet flashes, white scalloped edges and speckles on a field of dark umber.
Photo of a pair of bright yellow autumn hawkbit flowers, scrappy uneven sunbursts of oblong serrate-tipped petals on tall gangling stems.
