Yikes! That happened fast. But the trees and lights do look charmingly festive in the 2nd photo. We're having unseasonably sunny, warmish weather here with late autumn masquerading as early spring. Fine with me. I only dread that it may mean that once the snow hits, it will prolong its stay until May! Thank you for not mentioning how many shopping days are left until Christmas.
As your two contrasting photos show, all seasons have a special beauty to them, don’t they? I think world over we have a way of brightening up our lives when the bleak weather arrives. Usually that involves electricity and a lot of sparkly lights. :)
Same here, really - our wonderful Christmas market is already being set up, it will officially open next week. That is why it was this year's last pub quiz held last night at "my" Irish pub - during Christmas market (which lasts right up until one or two days before Christmas), the landlord does not host the quiz, since the place is too packed then with people who come straight from the market just to warm up and don't want to play.
Here in West Texas spring seems to have sprung up in order to confuse the transition between autumn and winter. It is presently unseasonably mild and nearly 80 degrees.
Hey, hold on, I'm not ready for winter yet. Can't we stretch the autumn just a little longer? Can't we extend that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness just a few more weeks?
Just a few Christmas decorations here but there will be more starting this week-end I imagine. The weather is too warm – today 72 F or 22 C and sunny to be thinking of winter yet. Pretty pictures!
Thanks Jenny for your sweet message - I'll be posting again before too long. I can imagine how chilly it's becoming over your way now. Perhaps you'll have photos of the first snow soon - gosh it hasn't already arrived!?
I was in England this time last year or thereabouts and saw Christmas beginning to happen in a different way to the Australian way. Here the decorations are beginning to be put up. I was in a pharmacy today and while waiting to be served noticed decorative pictures of reindeer, snowflakes and pine trees weighted with snow. The holly wreaths will soon appear and we will all begin thinking roast turkey, plum pudding and custard, mince pies, shortbread and rich Christmas fruit cakes...All the while the sun will blaze, temperatures will be 100 degrees farenheit in the shade and, on Boxing Day we will away to the beach for the long drawn out summer holidays...
Jenny, First I thought it was too early to say goodbye to autumn. But, while I was thinking it was still November, it became already the end of November. December,the busiest month will be here soon. Oh, what shall I do? Especially I love the first one. keiko
Cracking snaps! Winter is my favourite season. I love it. All that light in the dark! I actually saw two Christmas trees at windows on my journey home today! I'm not allowed until December....*boo*...!
I am glad people liked my photos. I have to confess the "winter" one was taken last year, even though the shops are now full of Christmas stuff. And I have missed the last surface mail posting date abroad, as usual! Christine, your comments about summery Christmases stirred some memories in my mind of my childhood in Australia, sitting on the beach with our Christmas dinner and being told that everyone would be cold in England. They asked if I remembered last Christmas in England. I remember remembering it - but my memories were all of my family and I had no recollection of the weather at all! That is how kids' minds work, I guess. Adullamite, the picture is from Syria, it is in the Damascus museum.
Nature is the best clock, isn't it. And as follows, the Bay Area time zone is behind. Our neighborhood is only now beginning to look like your first photo. It's really beautiful right now, especially with the flaming red Japanese maples at their peak. We have red apples against golden leaves in the back yard too.
But the calendar doesn't really follow nature's clock. I am now frantic (but enthusiastic) about Christmas festivities which always follows on the heels of Thanksgiving. I'm planning a Dickensian Christmas gathering with family. My husband is all ready to bark "Bah humbug!" in his nightgown and cap (which I gave him perhaps 10 years ago!) Not quite sure if I will be a Victorian male/female/spirit yet. So many options ...
Yikes! That happened fast. But the trees and lights do look charmingly festive in the 2nd photo.
ReplyDeleteWe're having unseasonably sunny, warmish weather here with late autumn masquerading as early spring. Fine with me. I only dread that it may mean that once the snow hits, it will prolong its stay until May! Thank you for not mentioning how many shopping days are left until Christmas.
Hello Jenny,
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures
Love the star lights on the church in the background
It is that time of year. Sadly, here in the USA, they don't wait for Thanksgiving to have it's day before those decorations go up :o(
ReplyDeleteLove the shower of golden leaves in the Autumn picture.
ReplyDeleteAs your two contrasting photos show, all seasons have a special beauty to them, don’t they? I think world over we have a way of brightening up our lives when the bleak weather arrives. Usually that involves electricity and a lot of sparkly lights. :)
ReplyDeleteThey're both very beautiful, Jenny! I hope it will be a good winter for you!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the festive season has arrived in your corner of the world. Following Thanksgiving Friday will start the parties and decorating.
ReplyDeleteHelen xx
I suppose it's never too early to start thinking....
ReplyDeleteLovely picture. Bright but gauzy.
The "winter" picture looks beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWe're at the same place in time, but lights and Santa Claus on palm trees just don't quite look the same. Sigh.
Hi Jenny,
ReplyDeleteIndeed, although the way the weather has been in Britain, I think we had practice in the 'summer', the warmer part of the British winter :)
Jenny, I love the autumn photo, the leaves are so golden and airier.
ReplyDeleteSoon winter comes, but I think your winter will be softer then ours.
Same here, really - our wonderful Christmas market is already being set up, it will officially open next week. That is why it was this year's last pub quiz held last night at "my" Irish pub - during Christmas market (which lasts right up until one or two days before Christmas), the landlord does not host the quiz, since the place is too packed then with people who come straight from the market just to warm up and don't want to play.
ReplyDeleteYes, the trees have already lost their leaves, the cold has moved to the peaks and snow ..... if, autumn goodbye, goodbye. Greetings.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Jenny, finding a positive in all this rain and wind and dark and cold ...
ReplyDeleteGoodbye indeed. The first picture captures a fabulous scene, as does the second one - except for the weather!
ReplyDeleteHere in West Texas spring seems to have sprung up in order to confuse the transition between autumn and winter. It is presently unseasonably mild and nearly 80 degrees.
ReplyDeleteLovely first picture! Excellent!
ReplyDeleteStill, Jenny, it is quite mild!
ReplyDeleteSeasons sliding seamlessly, one into another, like pearl beads slipping off a string.
ReplyDeleteA good reminder to savor what we have now.
Hello so many layers of clothing I shall never lose an impromptu game of strip poker!
ReplyDelete:-)
Pearl
Jenny: Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty post!Very simple, but all is said in two pictures!
ReplyDeleteHey, hold on, I'm not ready for winter yet. Can't we stretch the autumn just a little longer? Can't we extend that season of mists and mellow fruitfulness just a few more weeks?
ReplyDeleteOh no! I'm not ready to think about Christmas yet - surely it's months away.....
ReplyDeleteJust a few Christmas decorations here but there will be more starting this week-end I imagine. The weather is too warm – today 72 F or 22 C and sunny to be thinking of winter yet. Pretty pictures!
ReplyDeleteThe leaves are off our trees here, but it is still only cool. Both photos are beautiful in their own way. I like all the seasons!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures full of fantasy, excellent colors, light really is exquisite ...
ReplyDeleteoo a tree farm...i miss live trees....we travel so much though its just not practical....
ReplyDeleteChristmas trees for sale already! Blogging puts the xmas is coming soon factor to the forefront of ones mind.
ReplyDeletex Lorraine x
Yikes!
ReplyDeleteIs winter approaching already?
Time sure does flies. o.O
Thanks Jenny for your sweet message - I'll be posting again before too long. I can imagine how chilly it's becoming over your way now.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you'll have photos of the first snow soon - gosh it hasn't already arrived!?
Do the lights under the umbrellas symbolise anything or is it just a way to soften the onslaught of winter Jenny? Christmas trees?- Dave
ReplyDeleteI was in England this time last year or thereabouts and saw Christmas beginning to happen in a different way to the Australian way. Here the decorations are beginning to be put up. I was in a pharmacy today and while waiting to be served noticed decorative pictures of reindeer, snowflakes and pine trees weighted with snow. The holly wreaths will soon appear and we will all begin thinking roast turkey, plum pudding and custard, mince pies, shortbread and rich Christmas fruit cakes...All the while the sun will blaze, temperatures will be 100 degrees farenheit in the shade and, on Boxing Day we will away to the beach for the long drawn out summer holidays...
ReplyDeleteIt was such a short autumn too
ReplyDeleteyour post makes me realize how much i love autumn and will miss it
ReplyDeleteOh dear is Autumn really over, love the photos.
ReplyDeleteLovely pics Jenny - quite mild here today - heating only on low setting - long may it continue...
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]
Jenny,
ReplyDeleteFirst I thought it was too early to say goodbye to autumn. But, while I was thinking it was still November, it became already the end of November. December,the busiest month will be here soon. Oh, what shall I do?
Especially I love the first one.
keiko
Cracking snaps! Winter is my favourite season. I love it. All that light in the dark! I actually saw two Christmas trees at windows on my journey home today! I'm not allowed until December....*boo*...!
ReplyDeleteIt happened fast way over here in Fargo, too. ;)
ReplyDeleteToday the rain is pouring down in Bournemouth and I have to pop out and run a few errands... definitely wintry!
ReplyDeleteI am so looking forward to winter!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh for one more European winter!
ReplyDeleteThe new pic at the top is quite something.
ReplyDeleteEgyptian?
I am glad people liked my photos. I have to confess the "winter" one was taken last year, even though the shops are now full of Christmas stuff. And I have missed the last surface mail posting date abroad, as usual! Christine, your comments about summery Christmases stirred some memories in my mind of my childhood in Australia, sitting on the beach with our Christmas dinner and being told that everyone would be cold in England. They asked if I remembered last Christmas in England. I remember remembering it - but my memories were all of my family and I had no recollection of the weather at all! That is how kids' minds work, I guess.
ReplyDeleteAdullamite, the picture is from Syria, it is in the Damascus museum.
Not so soon!
ReplyDeleteNature is the best clock, isn't it. And as follows, the Bay Area time zone is behind. Our neighborhood is only now beginning to look like your first photo. It's really beautiful right now, especially with the flaming red Japanese maples at their peak. We have red apples against golden leaves in the back yard too.
ReplyDeleteBut the calendar doesn't really follow nature's clock. I am now frantic (but enthusiastic) about Christmas festivities which always follows on the heels of Thanksgiving. I'm planning a Dickensian Christmas gathering with family. My husband is all ready to bark "Bah humbug!" in his nightgown and cap (which I gave him perhaps 10 years ago!) Not quite sure if I will be a Victorian male/female/spirit yet. So many options ...