September 2024

September is always a time of change; the days are not so long and hot now as we move slowly into new terms, gentler golden sunshine, harvests and the return of the jacket potato! This photo is in a wild part of the garden, a hollyhock seed that arrived on the wind and grew to a giant specimen, flowering for weeks and weeks. The bumblebees have been visiting it happily every day; the low evening sun shining through the petals giving the remaining blooms an arresting fluorescence. There are once again skeins of geese calling as they fly overhead early and late each day, a sure sign of the changing season.

I continue to work on Christmas collections, to re-stock here and to send to galleries who sell my work. Autumn is not far off now, but these last glorious days of summer are so precious; the remaining flowers now showing off their charms with less competition.