Hoar frost

The countryside around Froxfield looked  so beautiful today, frost formed on the branches of the trees and berries around the paddock, in the woods and roadsides around and about. 

Garden of earthly delights

I always wish for more time to garden, but even so this year we've had more runner beans than we could possibly use

and possibly, just possibly our tomatoes will get the chance to ripen before the frosts come.

Garden of earthly delights

I do love this time of year, when warm days give way to cool nights and you can feel autumn taking a firm hold.

the echinacea has been fab for the bees

and, very pleasingly, the raspberries are still in full force, we just have to beat the wasps to them, until the first frosts . . . .