winter

[julesjones]

It's been such a mild autumn that some of the young spring blossom trees got confused and flowered again. There have been one or two very light frosts, and that's all.

No more. This morning I opened to the curtains to find condensation on the inside of the double-glazed windows even in the cooler rooms, and the frost lies thick enough to make the playing fields in the park stark white. It's *cold* out there...

Comments

[kalypso]

I noticed today that the loganberry canes are trying to flower again. I think the frost will prevent an extra crop.

[tychist.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It's a couple of hours to sundown and the frost is still here.

[julesjones]

It wasn't *quite* that bad here, but nevertheless I shall be putting a hot water bottle in the bed earl;y tonight to get it warmed up.

[feetnotes.livejournal.com]

ah, you have the advantage of a room with a view at such an hour - I'm far enough north here, that the sky's lighter, but not yet coloured, and the village church's stone doesn't really change colour much, save with the moss, various kinds of lichen - and rains of frogs, etc. at that hour - for the moment.

(leastways, i'm guessing that you are still a couple of hundred miles south of here; friends do move; and though one of the advantages of this interwebby thing is it's a lot easier to keep in touch, many people've deserted newsgroups, such as afp & abt-h, or rasff & rasfwr, for commercially owned & controlled website fora. which're nowhere near as good for coherently threaded, rational discussions, debates & inspired, logically intriguing silliness. even making light. and so I've lost touch with too many friends & newsgroup friends, and even afpers, over the last decade.)

...but where was i before i so rudely (and parenthetically) interrupted myself?

- ah, yes; it would indeed appear - finally - to be mid-autumn, with (if we're lucky, which it appears we may be^W^W are being, this year, a seasonal selection of "mists and mellow fruitfulness" and stunningly clear sunny days, with the sun's rays almost horizontal for most of the daylight hours, revealing aspects of the countryside unique to autumn.
and grey days, full of rain, or the threat of it, of course - but autumn's still far and away my favourite season.

- how about jules' ?

[julesjones]

I'm still somewhere where my daily commute went past the front door of the hotel for this year's con, which was most convenient. :-)

Alas, the last few times I looked into afp, it was full of tumbleweeds and trolls - and while it was not solely those things, I did not feel inspired to set up access on my shiny new computer acquired a few months ago. I find that I spend very little time outside LJ/DW these days, for lack of time and energy. Even irc is frequently left untouched for weeks at a time. I should really make an effort over the Christmas break to learn how to set up usenet access in Thunderbird.

As for my favourite season - "somewhere warmer". Having spent so much of my life in warmer climes, I have never yet become accustomed to mid-English temperatures. :^)