Thursday 12th November 2026, 1.10pm (day 5,558)
“I don’t care that all the others have gone! You can’t make me do it! Winter… I DEFY YOU!”
Clinging on
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: leaf
Further intimations of autumn
Tuesday 2nd September 2025, 5.40pm (day 5,122)
It’s only the second day of September but the kids have started back at school, it is much cooler and damper than it was, and there’s this general feeling of decline (and I don’t even mean in political terms, though we’ve certainly got that too). Autumn is upon us, I fear. Well, let’s make the most of it.
Ready to fly
Tuesday 29th April 2025, 11.05am (day 4,996)
The weather has been pretty good for some time now and things seem to be emerging earlier this year, nature-wise. It feels we should be well into May already, but that month doesn’t start yet for two more days. The dandeliion clocks are heavy with seeds, and an explosion is surely imminent.
Last year’s leaf
Tuesday 21st February 2017, 8.40am (day 2,007)
This leaf must have come down last autumn and ever since has been lying there, gradually decaying, into the layer of litter. Having somehow been shuffled to the edge of the deck, this morning it lay there catching the light in a pleasing manner. But this was an ephemeral beauty. The picture was taken at Hebden Bridge rail station and as I post this after passing the same point the next day, I did check on it — and it was gone, never to be seen again.
Last weekend of summer (Zen shot)
Sunday 18th September 2016, 10.55am (day 1,851)
What is a summer, but a return to autumn? An end, but a start?
[Haiku warning]
Fallen leaf
Friday 24th October 2014, 9.30am (day 1,156)
Back home, just for two days. This was a photowhack — the one and only picture taken today.
