First light

I have an array of beautiful tall, yellow daisies that are flowering just behind the wooden garden bench. They light up the garden, popping their heads up over the large box tree, trimmed into a ball shape. I get to see the yellow daisies as I walk across the courtyard to take the laundry over to the laundry room and it brightens the moment. They’re very late flowering, and are quite unexpected, especially as this morning there was a definite cool chill in the air. It feels like autumn has arrived.

We have some friends coming for dinner tonight, and I’m going to cook a chicken and mushroom pie, something hearty. Brian is outside preparing some wood for the fire. It’s the first time we’ve lit it this year, so it will be nice to have the warmth and the smell of a wood fire in the house this evening. We only have a little bit of wood left, mostly oversized bits. We’ve ordered some though, and are just waiting to find out when it will be delivered.

One down, but a few more to go.