What a contrast

I was checking back through my garden blips and found this one from the 29 April.   So I went out and took more-or-less the same picture today to show the April/September contrast.
In the April version the last snow is just melting away and I write about the riotous growth that will soon come. A feature linking the two pictures is the empty raised beds. In April the potatoes weren't planted, now they are harvested, and the beds wait for next spring.
The autumn has so far been rather warm. We have come very close to a frost a couple of times, including last night, but the frost sensitive flowers have survived so it didn't quite get there. Now we are entering a period of warmer (and rainier) weather and the 10 day forecast suggests nothing under 6°C.  Some years the first frost happens towards the end of August so reaching October without frost is very unusual.
Just after 1 oclock in the night (Swedish time) the Earth passes through the autumn equinox so all you people south of us start to have longer days than we do.