Results tagged “Autumn” from Test blog

A small creeper clings to the wall, recessed and sheltered in a shady corner around the back of the house. Its leaves are pinnate, dark, and velveteen green, and they are laced in an intricate net of silver. My friends would be surprised to learn that I don't actually know what it is, but I don't, and it's there, with leaves of insubstantial size, little, but no less pretty than those of the exotic things that we import to fill our conservatories and terraria.

And now they're bleeding. Like seeping magma, the firey reds and oranges of the dying time are are stealing out over the surface of reluctant green. They will blaze, for a brief instant, in a bright show of crimson, then fall, and wither. And that is the sign of the times.

Last night was the first of the season in which Cambridge could be seen through Autumn eyes, slipping on her shimmering ghost of a Winter dress that only improves with the shortening of days and the slow bleeding of vital colours from the trees and buildings around. With the advent of sundown materialised a light mist that cast everything into soft relief, and with the ever deepening moonshadow, punctuated here and there by the cheery, orange glow of college lights through ancient leaded windows, came whispered memories of bone aching cold, heavy coats and warm cider steaming between clasped, gloved hands.

Above all things I'll miss the warmth, but part of me is glad that winter is on its way.