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Equinox

It’s the end of summer and the start of autumn, the days are noticeably shorter and the mornings and evenings cooler, the harvest moon full and very bright. The last of the fields are being cut for silage and the majority of hay bales are safely stored in their barns. Traditional stubble burning is no longer an option to clear the ground of seeds after the wheat and barley harvest, so weeds will have to be controlled with herbicides. Picked mange tout, runner beans, courgettes and apples. A sunny hot day after a misty dawn.

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Autumn Equinox

A balloon landed in the vale just before dusk, it had been burning a lot of gas to gain height but landed in a ploughed field a couple of miles away, the mist was already gathering so the view from the basket would have been very mellow. The sun was a vivid red as it set, it made the sky glow a dusky pink. A lovely sunny day, cycled 15 miles and then had a pub lunch, a Hummingbird Hawkmoth bumped into me in their garden, something I’ve never seen before. They like bright sunshine and nectar rich flowers and will often return to feed from flowerbeds at the same time of the day; sadly the moths don’t survive our winter so this one will have migrated from France. The equinox is at 2.30pm, at this time the sun is above the equator and day and night are of equal length.