Apples, rosehips and blackberries

Signs that autumn isn't far away.

Out in the country

I'm hardly a big fan of intensive arable farming but it at least it makes for some pretty pattens in the landscape at this time of year, especially under a blue sky and little fluffy clouds. The harvest is in and they're busy plowing and harrowing ready for sowing the next crop.

Harvest moon

Full moon tonight, the harvest moon. Plenty of harvesting going on here - and the only riot is one of colour and produce.

Peas and beans, spuds and carrots, greens, tomatoes and more fruit than you could shake a stick at. And this week the first of the carnations too.

Happy harvesting. Resistance is fertile.

First carnations

Peas and beans

More flower power

Buzzing

There seems to have been an explosion in the population of hoverflies this week, to add to the bees and butterflies: