"Summer's lease hath all too short a date&quo

I took a lot of shots of the harbour: boats, gulls and lobster pots, to illustrate the blustery weather we've had today, but in the end I liked this one better. It's just a little garden I passed as I walked into town and poked the camera over the wall.

The corner of the plot shows the messiness of autumn as it straddles the hiatus between the blooming and the withering seasons. The flowering annuals have done their duty and have been set aside to join the compost heap, tomato plants are fading in the greenhouse, rhubarb leaves are drooping. Watering cans are lined up no longer needed. The ground has begun to be dug over. Only the leeks will keep going through the winter and supply the wherewithal for a hearty cawl cennin perhaps.

The rest of the day was cool and changeable as bright sunshine competed with scudding cloud. "Winter draws on" (a popular double entendre once considered so risqué that it was banned by the BBC!)