Monday 15 November 2021

Lingering blooms

Today was a grey, damp November day in which most of the time I was outside I was going back and forth with a wheelbarrow from the compost heaps to the vegetable plot. It seemed to get dark earlier than expected. The chickens always take themselves in at dusk and all I have to do is close the doors to their coops. Today I shut them up at 4:36pm - my practical indicator of the changing day length through the year.

In the gloom of the afternoon I noticed a shrub rose with a couple of flowers still lingering. I don't know the name of this rose but during the summer it is totally covered in small 2" blooms. But it was heartening to see just the odd one or two flowers hanging in there.


  


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