The ferns are mostly green still, some browning, some brown already and mixing with the fallen leaves at the edge of the brook. I think this is what best describes it, barely a stream, but shallow running water. No green algae here. Bordering the fishing ponds further down, are signs warning about this algae but none blooms here. The air has the freshness water gives it, a certain distinct damp quality taking me from here to there, right back to the hillside on the west coast of Scotland I climbed on the summer solstice. Now we are only days away from the winter one. Think of often of how Ali Smith describes the solstice as the ‘hinge and pivot of the year’. I hope she’s right; I am need of an opening as much as I am in need of a closing.
Beautiful