Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Beginnings of Autumn

Fall is coming to England. The trees are just beginning to change colors. The thought here is that there will not be a really pretty autumn in England this year because of the timing of rain and heat. I hope the experts are wrong!

This is our weather forecast for today through Thursday. Especially notice the low temperature on Thursday!

Tue Sep 25 Wed Sep 26 Thu Sep 27
Minimum
Temperature 11°C / 51°F 7°C / 44°F 3°C / 37°F

Maximum
Temperature 15°C / 59°F 11°C / 51°F 12°C / 53°F



The following picture is of a house that is across the street from the driveway into our apartment complex. It was taken a couple of months ago. Then there is a picture of the same house now. I think the vines are beautiful.




Here is a collection of leaves that I picked up on my walk the other day.






The next two photos show some bushes with orange and yellow berries. There are lots of different kinds of bushes and trees that have various colors of berries on them now. People here do not have to go to Hobby Lobby to decorate with beautiful berries!


Days are getting shorter. It is not getting light until about 7:00a.m. and it is getting dark about 6:30 p.m. Everyone is telling us that in winter the daylight comes at 9:00a.m. and it gets dark between 3:30 and 4:00p.m. !! We are not looking forward to that! On Sunday, Trevor, the preacher, said that he can put up with the really short winter days to get the really long summer days (4:30a.m. until about 10:00p.m. in summer).

4 comments:

Staci said...

The vines on that house are gorgeous!!!!

I can't believe how short the days are in the winter!

Anonymous said...

Wow! I can't believe how those vines have changed! Ours certainly don't do that. I bet parents love the short winter days - it would make it much easier to convince the kids to go to bed!

Steve and Joan said...

Fall is coming here too! Joan and I noticed last night it was getting dark around 7:30 and once we change back to normal time instead of daylight saving time it will really seem like short days!

Anonymous said...

I didn't realize summer days were so long there. We saw a few leaves changing in Wyoming, but nothing here yet.