



The wind was still strong and blew us along the beach. You can see the sand being whipped up into the air. It was not so pleasant walking back again but being sand blasted certainly blew some cobwebs away :-)
The view of North Hill is always pleasant whatever the weather. For some reason it often takes me by surprise. I have always lived near to the coast but grew up in a more urban area of Sussex by the sea.
The waves make me feel at home though. I love the sound of pebbles in the surf and the distant crash of waves.
And finally, just to prove we were there :-)I'll move on :-)
Although the trees in our garden are just beginning to turn to autumn colours (I am expecting the forecast gales to strip them nearly bare tomorrow) there is still a lot of colour in our garden. The Kaffir Lily (Schizostylis coccinea) is beautiful again and I really must get around to splitting and replanting it. Our Japanese Anemones, one of my all time favourites, is still in flower near the house. The mock orange, bought a couple of years ago is covered in little orange globes. The cyclamen have self seeded in the gravel again, forming little clusters of leaves. The fatsia is in flower and is producing a mass of little buds.
I am puzzled by the holly in our garden though. One holly tree was already in place when we moved in and for about 15 years I did not see a single berry on it. I have been told that only female holly trees bare berries and so for all these years believed that our holly tree must be male! Its not a tree that is pruned harshly, I only cut a few sprigs each year to bring indoors. There are many holly trees in this area, several homes around here are named after it. Birds drop so many seeds that little holly saplings shoot up regularly around the garden. So why has this particular tree produced berries this year. Has our holly tree undergone a sex change? :-) Has anyone else noticed that a tree has changed its habits of a lifetime :-)
As darkness will come at least an hour earlier today we decided to head out for our Sunday Stroll just after lunch. I wanted to photograph glorious autumn colours and shades. Although autumn is clearly here though, the weather has been very mild and many of our trees are still relatively green. I once read that it is the daylight hours that affect our trees, I'm not sure that is right. Light or temperature?
I don't know what these are, hope someone will tell me! I would never pick or eat anything that I had found. I simply don't trust myself enough to identify them!
The rain clouds gathered as we walked today. The wind picked up and we were showered with drizzle.
While out at sea the sky was blue.
This picture was taken a fortnight after the one in my previous post. Perhaps in another week the view will be gold :-)
Although it is only a week since my last post the weather has definitely changed. We are, of course, officially in autumn now. Autumn Watch and has begun on the BBC so there is no doubt :-) The temperature has dropped and the clouds were low, not a crisp dry day but a more traditional grey damp one :-)
The trees are still hugging their greenery at the moment though. The ferns have began to die back and the heather has lost it colour but the view generally is still green here.
Our Rowan Tree is not the only one covered in red berries this year.
We sat for a short while at this pretty little seat overlooking Dunkery, Horner and Ley Hill. With a seat pointing in four directions you can always find one out of the wind here :-) It was not the weather to sit around though!
Hope you all had a great weekend!