Seasons tend to be pretty orderly and follow on one from another without too much fuss but not here apparently, we seem to have gone straight from summer to winter in the space of one week. 7 days ago I was basking in wall to wall sunshine in shorts and a t-shirt and now I’m in socks, jeans and jumpers; what the hell happened to autumn?????
We are pretty lucky here in the South of France as we have around 300 days of sunshine a year and it’s not the wishy washy kind either, it’s the forget your sunglasses at your peril kind. However, when we do have bad weather it’s really, really bad; there are definitely no half measures here! Saturday found me bored out of my mind as I was stuck in the apartment while howling winds and torrential rain did their thing outside from the moment I got up to when I went to bed. It’s very much outdoor living here so, when we have days like this, everyone, unless they have to work, stays indoors and moans about the terrible weather…
Yesterday started off the same way and then, all of a sudden at about 3pm, it stopped raining. Yippee! I grabbed my trainers, clapped my headphones to my ears and was out the door like a rat up a drainpipe – fast! I decided to take a walk along the coastal path and boy am I glad I did; I love being near the sea at the best of times but yesterday I could just feel its power and it was magnificent. My intention with this walk was to burn of some of the energy that I’d built up during my enforced incarceration the day before but I had to keep stopping to take photo after photo. The headphones came off so that I could appreciate the unbelievable roar of the ocean and, in the end, I just stood there and watched with a huge smile on my face.
Today the skies are dark, the wind is depositing garden furniture all over the place and it’s raining again but my spirits are still lifted after my commune with the best that nature has to offer. I still don’t know what happened to autumn so I’ve listed it as missing in action…
Have a wonderful day everyone :O)
Lisa x
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