An extra bank holiday

Posted on November 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Bank holiday, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2111, Holiday, Life, Monday, October, SeasonLeave a comment

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

I’d invent “autumn bank holiday” for Britain.

We have lots of bank holidays in the UK but there is a big gap between the bank holiday Monday in August and then Christmas. I know America has a thanksgiving holiday and maybe we could have something in late October?

Not halloween! Not everyone celebrates that so I’d literally call it autumn day. To enjoy the change of the season. The mists and mellow fruitfulness. The changing leaves, autumnal flowers, the ripening of fruit, fungi fruiting, the start of animals gathering food for winter.

An outside day to explore and enjoy the season and a day of rest for the day, keeping a warm evening to enjoy seasonal foods.

Going over

Posted on September 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Flowers, Hanging baskets, Life, Memories, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Season, waning yearLeave a comment

Into autumn

Hanging baskets wilting

Blue skies

Turn grey

Night comes sooner

Each day

Life persists

Autumn gives some gifts

Fruit so mellow

Mists and fungi

Changing seasons

All below

A stormy sky!

Spring

Posted on June 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1966, Flowers, Garden, inspired, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Season, SpringLeave a comment

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

Flowers open

First daffodils then tulips

Some promise of primroses

Helibores nod their head

Leaves unfurl and spread

Yellows and golds attract the bees

Their eyes subtle patterns insects see.

Guiding them to nectar

From flowers and trees.

That’s the season set to please!

Silver birches

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birches, Colour, Flowers, Life, lilac, noon, Poem, Poetry, Roses, Season, Spring, Summer, WoodsLeave a comment

Sunlight on birches

Silver and brown.

Spring is a blooming

In woods and on ground.

Bluebells are over

Now comes the new

Garlands of roses

Covered in dew

Clematis climbing

Lilac are blue

Purple and white

Flowers scented too.

Remember the birches

Other trees shine

Oak tree and walnut

Hornbeam and lime

Oh lovely summer

In you come soon

When sunlight is brightest

At wondrous noon.

Autumn is on its way

Posted on September 1, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Fall, fallen leaf, Floor, Leaf, Loss, Photo, Photodirector, Season, TimeLeave a comment

A leaf on our floor has come in to visit today. I put the photo through photodirector to give more texture to it.

Some of our trees are starting to lose their leaves already. I think the lack of water over the last few months has had an effect. Autumn seems to come later each year, with warmer weather the leaves usually stay on longer. It may start now, but trees hold onto their leaves until well into November. But is this leaf a precursor to an earlier fall?

Autumn photos

Posted on October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Colours, Flowers, Front of house, Hill, Neighbourhood, Penkhull, Season, Trees, WalkingLeave a comment

Walking around my neighbourhood. The first walk I’ve been out on in four weeks. I took many photos and decided to turn them into a montage of colours and shapes. Trees are hard to capture in art and the many shapes can be seen here. I may use one or two of these photos to base paintings on.

I managed to walk about three miles, including our steep hill, I’m absolutely shattered but I still went upstairs and drew for an hour. More of that in my next post….

Snowflakes?

Posted on October 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flakes, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Season, Snow, Soft, Weather, Winter, WritingLeave a comment

Last January

It snowed

Huge flakes fell out of a grey sky

Cotton wool pieces

Layering up

Cold biting my bones

Blanketing the world with a white duvet

Smothering sounds

Birds hushed

Edges softened

Till drip, drip, drip

The thaw arrives.

Spring sprung

Posted on October 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blossom, Eternal, Fruit, Hope, Life, Poem, Poetry, Return, Season, Spring, TimeLeave a comment

Spring, sprung

Six months ago

Remember the blossom

The cherries that followed

Apples and pears

All out there

Hope reigns that it will come again.

Springing up from cold earth

Bitter rain

Chilling frosts.

Hope springs eternal….

Autumn sun.

Posted on September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Change, Colour, Death, Decay, Equinox, Life, Poem, Poetry, Season, WorldLeave a comment

The sun fades,

There is more night than day.

Equinox

Change of season.

Leaves that were green change,

First pale then golden or red and russet.

Chill air frosts spiders webs.

Rain falls cold and drenching.

Flowers that were bright fade away.

Fruits ripen and fall.

Golden grain is harvested and brought in.

Stored and dried.

Winter is not here yet but gradually

So gradually, time leaps on.

Autumn shades will fade in turn.

Autumn is coming

Posted on August 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Change, Fruit, Fruitful, Fungi, Garden, Leaves, Poem, Poetry, Season, Trees, WeatherLeave a comment

The season of Autumn is upon us, despite having temperatures of 33.7°C in some parts of the country this week.

Today was cooler, we had rain, the sky had been cloudy all day.

Autumn, changing days

Sun sets early, rises late.

Leaves turn from green to flame.

Ending a summers growth.

Fruit and fungi burgeoning

Apples become sweet, pears ripe.

Leaves lie deep, scrunch and crunch.

Life settles down until winters slumber.

Mallaband-Brown

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