FIRST FROST

We still have some flowers in the garden but not many, it means I have to search a bit.

Of course the fatsia is now heading for full bloom as it is nearly December - cannot quite work that out.

And there is leaf colour but mainly on the ground and the paths. The cherry colours are glorious but the sycamore the usual drab brownish grey.

 We are plagued by ivy as a ground weed - yes up trees but under them too, in flower beds and tangled in the plants there. 

Just noticed the viburnum in flower by the veg beds and also discovered some strange fruit like clustered rabbit droppings. And we have fungi like this pale yellow one, I think it is a wax cap.

Elsewhere azalea, hazel and beech still coloured, so is the royal fern.

Outside my study window is pot corner - bulbs and lilies waiting for the spring.

Four weeks to the shortest day and we have had some sunshine. The view from the kitchen doors is special in the late afternoon as light begins to fade.

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION.

Oh, forgot to tell you the small black fruit are, of course, privet.

Sun is setting on a cold dry day.