Down the lane the trees and hedges are full of berries.
The warm sun this morning belies the cold almost autumnal weather we've experienced over the last few days. Even the heating kicked in one morning and another day a cardigan was needed in the house.
The appearance of berries always moves thoughts on to Autumn even though I don't feel I've quite finished with what Summer has to offer. The plums have yet to ripen on the tree at the top of the garden and the dahlias, zinnias and cosmos are still blowing around blowsily, their colourful heads dancing merrily in the breeze.
Rowan berries, black berries, elderberries, hips and haws are all showing their colour along the path.
Above and below Rowan berries.
Blackberries
Some ripe enough for picking to go with apples for an apple pie. We left them for the birds and mice or perhaps jam makers.
Elderberries
Enough for both birds and wine makers to harvest.
Rosehips - a good source of Vitamin C.
I remember being fed teaspoons of Rosehip syrup as a child.
Hawthorne Berries
There were so many Hawthorne bushes that there must have been, sometime in the past, a Hawthorne hedge all the way along the path separating it from the fields.
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