September is probably my favourite month. The leaves are all changing colour, there is fruit on all the trees, apples everywhere and the evenings are getting cooler. Utter bliss!
Edith Holden's illustrations and descriptions of September are beautiful, although her September is very warm and dry, and the trees not changing colour at all. This she attributes to the long drought:
"Scarcely any of the foliage on the trees is turned colour. Some of the beech trees are quite bare, their leaves having shrivelled up and fallen off, this is doubtless due to the long drought there has been here. Weather still contiunes perfect. Hot sun during the day, cold and clear at night, mist in the mornings".
This is certainly not the case here. The trees are all bronze and gold; the hedgerows are bursting with berries especially blackberries and rowan berries, and there's a distinct feel of Autumn in the air. I can't wait for the first log fires and that wonderful, evocative smell of wood smoke.