Out to lunch!

The first time since my hip operation on November 1st, marking an important milestone on the day to day recovery, and confidence building.
I so enjoyed it.
It is a lovely quiet autumnal day with that kind of filtered sunshine coming through mottled clouds, which are evidently called stratus clouds. I looked them up to find the name.
It was delicious to step through the front door and sniff the cool air with the pavements across the road beginning to look like golden brown carpets of leaves to scrunch underfoot.
After lunch, which was delicious, at the Chase Farm Shop and Café complex, we drove to a nearby lane which once linked a road near us to the main A453 to Tamworth. It was bisected by the building of the M6 motorway so has no issue at the other end. This means it is always quiet without cars driving along it, except the ones belonging to the handful of properties in their own grounds, who now live in a cul-de-sac and can only exit at our side.
If they want to go to Tamworth anytime they have to make a detour.
This road is overhung with trees in all their autumnal variations of colour or now leaf bare.
Bracken is crisping up in the hedgerows and ditches alongside. It is a good place for a walk.
I stepped out of the car and took a few photos
When we got home Stephen walked with me across the road and along the boundary of the school perimeter fence for a short way and then back again, my feet swishing up leaves.
That was enough for today.
But it was so affirming!
The best thing I realised was I had been able to get into and out of the car without any pain for the first time in a couple of years!
Now it is time for a rest.
At 2:15pm I am sitting on the settee in the front lounge looking at the denuded birch trees in the school grounds surrounded by the tall hollies and other evergreen shrubs along the fencing.
I wonder when Autumn slips into winter?