I really love the fact that in Britain we get all four seasons & as I grow older I realise that this is by far my favourite one. As a child you of course love the summer with school holidays & I am sure a lot more regular warm & sunny days than the unpredictable ones at present. But give me Autumn every time now.
Here in “Big Tree Country” as this area of Perthshire is known, we tend to get a much more colourful Fall as the Americans call it, our equivalent to New England I suppose. But just as attractive are the small everyday garden bushes, as the pyracantha (Fire Thorn) shows in the first 3 pictures, I think they are 3 different verities of the same family, but they look great this year & the Blackbirds love the berries.
The last two days have been freezing overnight (down to minus 2C again) but the days have been wonderful clear skies & sunny, with just a nip in the air, proper Autumn weather. But Saturday was wet all day & blowing a gale, hence in the next shot you will see the Acer has lost half it’s leaves already, we normally get a couple of weeks show out of this wonderful colourful bush, not this year a week at the most.
The next shot shows you why we love our view, this is looking down towards the village in a south westerly direction from our house, two days ago the direction was where we were watching the rain coming from, hardly seeing the first lot of trees, now look at it.
Lastly looking from the field at the front of the house, back towards our home, even the common old Silver Birch looks splendid & hasn’t dropped all it’s leaves yet, plenty of gutter clearing when it does.
