On my own…..

Winter….

The nights and early mornings are getting much cooler…. the Milky way has been lit up in all it’s glory this week… you see way more of it in the Southern hemisphere, but I kind of miss the Northern sky sometimes, and those old familiar stars.

There hasn’t been much rain, but it suddenly became really cloudy and broody last night and we had lashings of the stuff… it was completely deafening on the roof… I love that sound! All the vegetables are getting ready for harvesting, but….. I need a few more weeks without frost, I am determined to get a couple of Spaghetti squash at least….. they have to be one of favourite vegetables in the world and I haven’t tasted one for over 5 years!

Winter is coming…. hurray!!  I love winter, that first smell of it in the air… firelight and dark nights,  wood smoke and the crackling of bonfires, candles and red wine, soupmaking season…. frost in the mornings, crunchy footsteps, the hunting and gathering of autumn and winter… in England when the summers were way too hot and humid, I used to get *SAD* in the spring!! I guess I was always upside down….