The first thing I do, once we have unpacked our car, which has been groaning with all the stuff we need for a week's stay in the holiday cottage, is head for the outer gardens of Colonsay House. It is a place of wonder for me! I particularly love the leaves of the giant rhododendrons. There are many different varieties, all planted in the early 1930s. The outer gardens are generally overgrown, having had little tending over the decades. That makes them even more magical! The old woodmill falls apart a little more every year, but that's fine by me because I love corrugated iron and especially if it's rusted! And of course the bees. Colonsay's beekeeper, Andrew Abrahams, has one of his apiaries on the edge of the pine wood. So lovely - the hum of busy bees and the heady smell of the pines. We are here - finally! Delayed by four months by the wretched virus, but now I am on holiday! Hooray!
Autumn is:-
ReplyDeleteAcorns & Apples
Bales & Beauty
Chestnuts & Cider
Deciduous & Decorations
Evergreen & Events
Falling Leaves & Festivals
Gourds & Golf
Halloween & Harvest Moon
Indian Summer & Influenza
Jam & Jars
Katydids & Khaki
Leaves & Logs
Migration & Moths
Nuts & Nature
October & Outside
Persimmons & Pumpkins
Quilts & Quivering
Raincoats & Raking
Trick or Treat & Turkey
Scarecrows & Squirrels
Umbrellas & Unicorns
Variety & Vacations
Woollens & Winter
Yellow & Yarns
Zest & Zeal
Alphabetical Autumn...so many words to describe a magical time of year xx