Autumn is a comin in......in a confused manner, and half the time thinking it is spring. The plants really don't know what to do - for weeks now, they have been deluged by thunderous downpours of heavy rain, on an almost daily basis. The sky is the colour of pewter for a good part of the time - perhaps expected occasionally in high summer, but not as a daily occurrence.
The result is the wettest August on record, an almost unremembered lushness to the herbiage, which is normally a straw brown colour in most places at this time of the year, and an abundance of new growth such as one normally sees in April and May. Combined with this we have the definite signs of Autumn - apples ripened on the branch, blackberries and elderberries plump and purple, and already being raided by every bird in the vicinity. It surely is a strange season, and the reasons for it? Did the words "Global warming" pass my lips - or is it all just "in the normal run of things"?
Journal prompt - Write about new growth, lushness, abundance - their absence or presence in your life, and their importance to you. What new growth has happened to you recently? Has it been expected or "out of season"? What has stimulated your growing - and how can you (or others) encourage it to continue?
