Nature's Harvest

Lets me talk you all for a walk around the lanes where I live. It 's a cold blustery day, (no change there then!), the sky is leaden and full of huge angry clouds blowing across the landscape below. The wind rushes through the trees making it impossible to hear anything else. No bird song, no traffic on the distant valley roads, nothing but the wind. There is rain in the air as always and that faint metallic tang that forewarns the approaching thunder.

The fields are barren now, their harvest gathered between the storms. We have had a rare, dry and fine weekend and the combine harvesters have been working until midnight. Their steady drone could be heard and the occassional headlight glimpsed through the hedgerows and on the dark hills above the valley.

There is beauty everywhere you look and the hedgerows have some of the finest jewels on display.

I once read somewhere that the more berries there are on the trees, then the harder the approaching winter is going to be...not sure if that is just an old wives tale... but there sure are some heavy crops out there.

Tonight we will light a fire and draw the curtain for the first time in ages. The wind is on the increase and the rain is coming down fast, but inside all will be warm and cozy and a hot chocolate is top of the list, along with my book as mentioned in my last post. I have a lovely new notebook and pink pen and I can feel a few lists coming on. Dev X