Morning Stories: Autumn days

Arrival of even more darkness and time confusion

The weather has turned properly autumnal, with lots of low hanging clouds rain and wind. Although it’s still warm enough for the rosemary and some flowers in our garden to stay in bloom. Also the view from my back garden is not yet so colourful as it was last year at this time. Lots of trees are still green. Our magnolia started turning yellow just this week. I really appreciate autumn this year, maybe because it was a long wait for it to come.

Today it will be dark earlier, but I always appreciate the darkness. Did you know that many people living in the far north prefer winter darkness to the summer continuos light? I so understand this sentiment. I would love to live in a place where the darkness fell everyday about 8 pm. All year round. It would be perfection.

The rain just stopped and there is some blue showing up between the clouds. The day looks promising and may go for a bike ride to send a book to the new owner. I’m still completely smitten with my electric bike and every time I need to take the car I quietly apologise to it for not taking it for a ride.

Waking up on the day the clocks go back an hour is always confusing. Today I forgot for a moment that my watch is working on the new time and was angry with my brain that it woke me up this early, but then I couldn’t fall back asleep and realised that it was actually an hour later for my body and I’ve slept enough.

How are you today?

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