I can smell Autumn in the air :)

[ex-member Raikey]

I've been working in the garden, in and out the lane under the trees, just pottering around all day. Tidying up, sorting stuff, and I just realised that I really was smelling Autumn
No real leaf drop yet, plants are still flowering and fruiting, but it's unmistakeable.

Anyone else aware of the change ?

atb,
M

me too Mary,

its been cold today and i did pick up the same thing,..

i reckon its not just the smell though,

the inbuilt clock has started letting us know,.

we're just animals after all (speak for yourself i hear you shout!)

another week or two and i'll be all depressed and ready for the cave,...

i've already put on two stone in preparation...

 

[Corfe]

Can't wait. My favourite months to camp out are september to November. Fewer muppets about, and you begin to truly relish the warmth of the fire.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Felt it in the air when I was out with my girls the night before last.

 

[British Red]

Harvested the first set of parsnips yesterday - and today the wind smashed flat my entire corn crop

I like Autumn - but not today

 

[HillBill]

Rachaels corn got flattened too. Shes not impressed.

Harvested the first set of parsnips yesterday - and today the wind smashed flat my entire corn crop

I like Autumn - but not today

 

[Man of Tanith]

i really like Autumn possibly my favourite season
noticed it on my shopping list of all things-stew ingredients soups etc rather than the more summer orientated stuff i was getting

 

[santaman2000]

Maximum tomorrow is expected to be about 16'C and at night it'll maybe 4'C
Your heat would kill me Santaman2000

cheers,
M

To be honest Mary the Florida heat doesn't always suit me either.

 

[JonathanD]

I can feel and smell it for sure. It's just around the corner.

 

[dwardo]

Our tomatoes are still green too

As are most of mine

BUT I do love the autumn and as said above the cold mornings and warm days are lovely. Then before you know it its winterboots and our kid dragging me up a hill for a snow climb

Oh and the nasty biting bugs days are numbered!

 

[Gailainne]

The temperature in the Central belt has dropped significantly over the last week, and Mary is right you can feel/sense it, there's a smell, tone of light that goes along with it. A mate at work this morning showed me a picture of a car park with snow on it, taken the day before in Strathclyde!, he also told me that another mate was thrown across the room by a close lightening strike the same day. Weather aint it wonderful!

 

[Bluebs4]

Mmm love spring and autumn my two best seasons ,just got in with dogs sun was setting behind me and a nice big full moon in front .........

 

[Bowlander]

Can't wait for the first frost - might just fettle the midges. Leaves are really turning around here and the geese have turned up on the Tay.

 

[EdS]

must be autumn I've just had a bath.

 

[Shewie]

I'll be packing the winter underquilt for next weeks trip I think, just knocked the thermostat up to 19 because Carol was moaning

 

[Barn Owl]

Mainly this evening that i noticed it considerably cooler.

It's just the long dark nights i don't like come winter.

I do love Autumn and spring the best.

 

[redandshane]

Take a look at the moon its a big un

 

[Toddy]

It's a beautiful night here Crisp and cold and bright with that big Moon

Supposedly grass frosts in Lanarkshire tonight.

I agree with Tam about the long dark nights though though it's maybe the short dreich days that are worst.

I'm camping at Comriecroft in a fortnight....I'll be taking the down mat and the extra quilt too

cheers,
M

 

[santaman2000]

Speaking of the moon, remember that tomorrow night (31 August) is a blue moon.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Speaking of the moon, remember that tomorrow night (31 August) is a blue moon.

Looking forward to it

Also Santaman, in Florida do you get much of a change in the seasons obviously you have hurricanes and wet weather but do you get much of a autumn in the way we do with the leaves falling of the trees, weather gets significantly colder etc?

 

[santaman2000]

Looking forward to it

Also Santaman, in Florida do you get much of a change in the seasons obviously you have hurricanes and wet weather but do you get much of a autumn in the way we do with the leaves falling of the trees, weather gets significantly colder etc?

Yes. The changes are pretty much the same as the Cotswolds. The difference is the length of the seasons. Whereas the joke while I was stationed over there was that Summer was only 2 or 3 weeks, in Florida reverse that for the Winter. In Winter it gets down about 12 degrees or so below freezing, just not very often. Back in the early 1990s we had 2 Ranger candidates training at Camp Rudder die from hypothermia in the Yellow River Swamp. Since then the Army has revamped the curriculum to include more check-ups in the swamp.

Also remember that I'm in Northwest Florida in the Panhandle; not down in South Florida. It doesn't really get much hotter down there but the cold season is even shorter.