I get the feeling in the last couple of days that our recent spell of sunshine is summers final flurry. The Ospreys have left, the Swallows are massing, and the first few Geese honked overhead as I was walking home this evening – there’s a chill in the air that’s been absent for the last few months too. The birch leaves seem to have been the first to feel it, just starting to yellow in places. Caught in the midday sun you might think it’s the golden green of summer you’re seeing but in the last of the evening light you know, Autumn’s approaching……
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