I only went out to cut the lawn ...

Tweet

Although I love the Spring and Summer months there's something about Autumn that really draws me. I think it's partly because the foliage on bushes and trees looks so colourful and I also love the damp earthy smell of the ground ... so much more intense during the Autumn I find. It was a lovely sunny afternoon today so after lunch I told Adam I'd go out and cut the lawn as, despite my cutting it a week or so ago and being certain it would be the last cut of the year, it was getting quite long. I cut the front lawn and then thought that my dahlias had now really become a bit bedraggled so I cut them back and then trimmed along the edges of my lawn. Having cut the back lawn I did a bit of dead heading of my dahlias (which at the back are still blooming), my rose and my buddleia bush and put the heads into our Brown Bin, I noticed that the hedge on our driveway was looking a bit tatty so I got out my shears and cut stuck into that. I'd only intended to be out there for about half and hour cutting the lawn and ended up being an hour and a half! But the one thing I do love about being out in the icy air gardening, is coming into a nice warm house afterwards, making a lovely hot cup of tea and settling down in front of the fire However, before I settled down I took a picture of the meadow at the bottom of the garden as the sun's going down. Shows how long I was out there - went out at 2.30, came back in at 4.00! By the way, most of you probably don't know what a Brown Bin is. It's a brown bin that' we pay for yearly but it's owned by our local Council. The idea is that we put all our garden rubbish into it and then, once a fortnight throughout the year, the Council come round and empty the bin into their truck and then it's put on a huge compost heap so that farmers and allotment owners can use it on their land.