Fate

Two good things today:
1. The apple tree seems to have decided overnight to drizzle rather than pour apples on us.
2. Oxford Food Bank collected, as arranged, eight full carrier bags of the best apples for distribution tomorrow to local charities.

So my time today cutting bruises, bird-pecks and wasp bites out of the not-so-good ones to make dried apple, apple leather, apple juice and stewed apple has cleared the backlog. Tomorrow I will look at my backlog of emails. I have a backlog of backlogs to clear later in the week.

I went out this evening with a camera I haven’t used for a while and uncharacteristically found myself taking pictures of flowers: a neighbour’s window box glowing with begonias, a solitary sunflower, scarlet runner bean flowers in a front garden full of beans and courgettes, a verge thick with ragwort, more sunflowers... Just as I got to where I was heading, the camera battery gave up and the usual spare in my pocket wasn’t there. So back home to pick it up then out again. Two shots later the memory card was full. As I set about deleting old pictures, the rain started.

So fate decrees sunflowers.