WINDING DOWN
It seems as if the sun is setting so much faster these days, but here it is 8:30 at night and there is still a westerly glow. Maybe it’s just that we don’t notice it when the skies are overcast or it’s raining, compared with the clear and crisp weather we’ve been blessed with this week. The trees are a bit droopy, on the verge of being droppy, but they haven’t started shedding yet. Most of the fields have been cleared, and there are only a few dotted with thick wheels of hay still waiting to be collected for winter...