Enough for a Pie

It brightened up by early afternoon, so I just had a short stroll along the sunken byway which is quite close to us. It always feels like the season in a microcosm. Today, over the wall the corn had been harvested and there were Jackdaws and Crows feasting on the fallen seeds. A few tiny fungi were pushing through the compacted earth by the path. It doesn’t seem to be a mast year for acorns, but there were a few on the small oaks that line part of it. There were seedheads of foxgloves and rosebay willowherb and elderberries, rosehips and blackberries. It promised to be a bumper crop of blackberries this year, but many of them seemed to have withered on the branches.