Early autumn: a few leaves falling
Early autumn is here. Already in mid-September leaves are turning and falling. It doesn’t show on the photo of our local Roman pathway, but there leaves were scattering across the path. Occasionally now we have small sprinkles of rain – nothing to really wet the land – and when the clouds clear the temperatures still climb.
Early mornings are cool, and of course the sun rises much later that in mid-summer. A few days ago, with the temperature at 14º, I set off for a short 3 or 4 mile (5 to 7 kms) walk; and what a difference. Instead of walking, as I had been, in the evening when the temperature is still around 33º – probably less under the trees – I could walk as the sun came up and spread a warm light over the fields where I could see between the trees. The country had that cool damp – how damp in this weather? – smell of early morning. And even then – early September – a few leaves were falling.
David Burrows
16 September 2023
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