Week 38
Beautiful/freezing summer/autumn
Hello!
What a beautiful week it has been…we were all surrendering to autumn and digging out our woolly hats and now, of course, summer has swung back. It wants to hang around a tiny bit longer after all, it seems. But it’s different isn’t it, it comes with a particularly golden hue to the sunlight, and a cool in the morning, and a few yellow leaves in the trees…
This is our community post in which we chart the seasons month by month. We do it by remembering the tiny things, the stuff we have done or noticed that we wouldn’t have done or noticed the week before, and that might not be around next week. Which is another way of saying: we want to hear about the things that are particular to you at this moment in the year. I tell you mine, and then you tell me yours in the comments, and we bundle them all up together at the end of the month.
Here’s mine:
Freezing/beautiful summer/autumn
It has been a year of 50th birthdays for me and this was the biggest celebration of the lot, a weekend mini-festival-party for my friend - and festival queen - Jess. The weather was beautiful in the day but freezing at night and first thing in the morning, and so we really needed our little yurt wood burners. I loved the smoke and sunlight through the trees in the morning after I had got ours going.
We swam in the freezing sea, danced in the big yurt, ate beautiful food with old friends, sat around campfires, sang, and gazed at the most incredible sky of stars. The teenagers ran around like the big bunch of cousins they nearly are and a couple had their first taste of cider and thought we didn’t know. I saw the best meteor I have seen in my life, green and bright and lasting several seconds. I felt old and young in all the right ways. One of those weekends that is all hassle in the run up, all magic in the remembering. A beautiful late summer/early autumn blast that has left me ready to happily sink into autumn.
That’s it from me, now over to you. What have you done/seen/baked/eaten/smelt this week that felt particularly ‘this week’?
Please tell us in the comments below.
Watching the amber coloured harvest moon rising over the Thames on a balmy evening, London’s south bank was vibrant and joyful with a DJ playing music and people dancing, as though celebrating that last warmth before the autumn really comes in
Being thankful that last week’s cold snap and north wind turned into a delicious warm spell and having lunchtime naps in the garden under the sun
The first deep crimson and vivid traffic light red of the Virginia creeper leaves changing colours
A huge delivery of pumpkins arrived at a farm shop on my commute to work so I pulled in spontaneously and helped excited shop keeper select the very biggest and most regal ones for his display! We were both in awe of their weird and wonderfulness, their curly tendrils and decided we would become pumpkin farmers so that next year we could claim to have nurtured such beauty!