Equinox pulling nights shadows back over bright days. Swallows head home where the sun grows stronger. The garden, slows down packs up it belongings and bundled into seeds awaits the pickers and packers. Autumn takes on its rouge cosmetic sedentary demeanour, as leaves drop off into shades of brown and bark, burnt from beauty in the summer caress, now yielding to the cusp of cold winds taming the North and East, slowly changing the landscape into a damp squid waiting for harvests of last fruits and flowers, before winter comes softly in with icy winds and blanket mist coloured morning and evenings, fireplaces roar life and laughter.
Winter settles like a city smog shading the last gasp of warm sun under a duvet of dainty dreams.
We look out for the coming Christmas of family, friends, and greetings cards that will burst upon our sense of beauty with a carol honed in honeytones of harmony practised over weeks of preparation.
Another year will drop on the calendar of events that we carry forward to every season.