After lunch, heading home via Princes Street in its autumnal splendour …
Post Lunch Princes Street
Tag: autumn
Mist and gold
We’re living in tumultuous times – pretty much wherever we live. All of us do well to spend at least some time each day focusing on things that bring us joy, and that has always been the chief intention of this very personal blog. Autumn in Edinburgh – mist and blown gold today – affords daily opportunity to practice that intention.
Wednesday
Royal Botanic Gardens
A wonderful Sunday Promenade in Edinburgh’s fabulous Royal Botanic Gardens today – where autumnal colour changes (already stunningly beautiful) are said to be only just beginning …
The Signet Library
Coffee at Edinburgh’s Signet Library (link) in Parliament Square this morning, followed by an amble around some of the usual haunts of the Royal Mile and beyond, on a damp but wonderfully bright morning.
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Still mild
It’s still relatively mild here in Edinburgh – which makes meeting up with friends for supper and a quiet walk home afterwards all the lovelier. Something about the lights in residential windows at this time of year, and puffa jackets, gloves and scarves, gently warms my heart.
Light
I know, I know. Photographers are funny old sticks, forever banging on about the light, the light! But, honestly, Edinburgh autumn days are astonishing. Seasons, fresh morning air, the ever changing foliage, gradations of light …
Holyrood gold
Holyrood has been a joy to behold today. Mild and golden, I remember with every returning why I love Edinburgh so much.
Ullswater Way
Deep blue sky, dew on the lawn, green, red, orange and gold in the trees, a warmer coat, perhaps a scarf, enjoying breakfast baked apples hot because there’s a slight nip in the air … beauty in autumn everywhere.
Baked apples
I remembered the joy of baked apples tonight and I’m so glad I did – they’re wonderfully easy. Wash, remove core (my apple core remover is a favourite kitchen tool), replace said core with sultanas, currants or honey and pop in the oven for twenty-five minutes. With or without custard or other sauce, fluffy baked apples are warming and delicious – and somehow all the more so if they’re from one’s own garden.
Mellow morning
in awe and mildly
sad today in autumn’s odd
juxtapositions
Cottage industry
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Mine will be a warm-scented kitchen today as apple stewing marks the advent of autumn. And then more to be harvested tomorrow.
A cloud of interests
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There wasn’t
time enough for all the wonderful things
I could think of to do
in a single day. Patience
comes to the bones
before it takes root in the heart
as another good idea.
I say this
as I stand in the woods
and study the patterns
of the moon shadows,
or stroll down into the waters
that now, late summer, have also
caught the fever, and hardly move
from one eternity to another.
Mary Oliver
From ‘Patience’
New and Selected Poems
Volume Two
Happy September! I’m having a quiet evening and feeling peaceful and mellow.
I’ve been thinking, too, about my automatically generated ‘tag cloud’ here, and of how it gives a pretty good account of some of my chief interests … inner life, contemplation, Edinburgh, poetry …
Autumn and winter will be warmed by an array of interests and occupations like these.
Cycling
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Everything on earth is engaged in cycling through purposeful seasons. The biosphere is sometimes beyond our comprehension, and at other times simply unnoticed. We have our favoured seasons. Most like mild conditions, neither too hot nor too cold. Bees at work in summer are readily noticed. The ground-level mulching and the breaking down processes (in earth and in us) not so much. Noticed or unnoticed, the cycle continues. I love many different aspects of each of the four seasons. And I realised, walking through the city streets of Edinburgh in the early hours of the morning, that I love this world more generally, too. It is my home. It is our home. I shall try to participate more fully in the cycling. I shall try to be quietly purposeful – and thankful.
Good morning
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There’s just a hint of autumn in the air on this sunshiny morning in Edinburgh. Breakfast at Kilimanjaro, before the Comedy Awards at Pleasance Courtyard, gets another day off to a great start. And I’m still revelling in the joy of last evening’s dance class. What a fabulous evening!
wind in my wheels 🌱 