Longing for autumn.

A primeira vela do outono chegou. É enorme (pelo menos na escala do gato; as cores combinando não foi intencional)

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Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex.

Beth Chatto was an award-winning plantswoman, author and lecturer. Her work at the Gardens began in 1960. She took an overgrown wasteland of brambles, parched gravel and boggy ditches of the disused fruit farm belonging to her husband, botanist Andrew Chatto. She used plants adapted by nature t…

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Midsummer.

Midsummer beauty. On nights like this we used to swim in the quarry,   the boys making up games requiring them to tear off  the girls’ clothes   and the girls cooperating, because they had new bodies since last summer and they wanted to exhibit them, the brave ones   leaping off  the high rocks — bodies…

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Hampstead Village doors.

Truly amazing, four colorful doors. They all call to me but which one to choose? Moving closer I listen intently. Alas, not a sound. Now what should I do? – Happy Chica

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