October sunshine

Today we have a glorious sunshine and the kind of weather I like most. I had a careful try to use my knee again when I walked to have my massage in the morning. I told you this was a good day! The walk went well (and so did the massage), and I managed to get some photos of the disappearing beauty of autumn.

You can click the pictures to get a closer look. This is a waxwing in a treetop. There were a whole flock of them, eating the last rowan berries and these black berries:

I'm not sure what the tree is; they have been planted in the narrow green strip between the road and the sidewalk. Melanie, my learned friend, could this be sloan?

This is a rose bush hiding our trash can. I have made jam of these hips a couple of times, but it is an awful lot of work and the taste is not so great after all.

This very small aspen was the only one with red leaves, all our big ones have yellow or brownish leaves. When the sun shines through them, they look almost like gold coins ;)

These are the last flowers by the roadside, masses of Matricária inodóra. They are like chamomile, but like the Latin name says, without the smell.

I have sheets and towels drying outdoors on my washline, they will be so soft and fresh when they can dry in the sunshine and the wind. I like to fold them direct from the line to my mangle before they are quite dry; I think the freshness remains in the fabric that way.

My sewing projects are not proceeding, but I have been digging in my stash and choosing fabrics for a new project we are planning to start on Thursday in the sewing group. It will be my first step in the direction of textile art. We will be working on the basis of pictures from books or our own photos. It sounds very exiting!