Embers

Autumn leaf, Dame Emily Park, Bristol, October 2025
Autumn leaf, Dame Emily Park, Bristol, October 2025

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Those long summer days

long since a memory lost

autumn’s stranglehold

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by Scooj

Summer ends

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A perfect summer

ends with a grand finale

rain showers forecast

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by Scooj

  • It looks like today might be the last sunny and warm day of a glorious summer, but the lack of rain has caused all sorts of problems for farmers and nature, so the rain forecast for the next couple of weeks is actually very welcome.

Beautiful noise

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Swifts take the high notes

the air thick with sparrow chirps

and magpies squawking

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by Scooj

Lucky stars

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Serendipity

cloudless, dark, warm starlit sky

Perseid shower

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by Scooj

Summer days

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Summer holidays

a break from school and routine

more time for nature

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by Scooj

  • On reflecting on the joy of summer holidays when I was a youngster and I could spend time in Cornwall with my grandparents and commune with nature, all day, every day. Happiest of days.

After the heat

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Cooler winds arrive

and silver birch leaves rustle

English summer’s day

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by Scooj

Undefeated

Sunflower, Redland Bristol, August 2024
Sunflower, Redland Bristol, August 2024

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Leafless sunflower

savaged by marauding slugs

determination

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by Scooj

Late arrival

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Absent butterflies

with warmth emerge from hiding

at last the sun shines

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by Scooj

St Swithin’s Day

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It rained half the day

does that mean that it will rain

for the next twenty

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by Scooj

No sun flower

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Long overcast days

just two feet high and rising

low expectations

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by Scooj