Autumn...

... no I know it isn't yet.

But we enjoyed June and July weather this year in the strangest of all April and May.

And June and July have been like August and September...this morning there was a distinct late-summer scent in the air - that sixties- childhood-summer-holiday-in-Cornwall scent of warm ferns and puddles.

Already there are fruits in the hedgerows...today, on our walk, we saw elderberries plumping-up, sloes where only yesterday (it seems) there was blackthorn in flower,

and bright red Rowan berries.

And tasted the first ripe blackberries of the year.