Annie Graham
Here’s a teaser of Annie’s personal blog “Old Lady by The Sea” for her personal reflections on her writing, her garden and this month’s view of the sea. Click on this link to teleport to her blog, read the full post and subscribe.
We had a dark and stormy night yesterday, a real belter with hours of drenching rain and gusting winds. Just like the old days before the drought. And today? It’s calmer and brighter but we’ve still got those howling winds and big crashing waves. Life is getting back to normal.
The autumnal colours are out in force in the ones that survived the summer heat. The ruby red sedums, bright scarlet lilies and barbie pink anemones are really trying to mark the turn of the season. The autumnal solstice has already passed and in only three weeks, the clocks will go back to wintertime and the long dark days will return. The summer really did speed by too fast.
There is much debris to clear out but we have two survivors, just: the lovely bougainvillea and a verbena. With a bit of care over the winter, they will become glorious again next year.Â
The new patch that was planted over a dig up to replace the mains water pipe is thriving despite its exposure to the elements. And the pizza oven has, for the first time in its existence, got a chimney. A shiny steel very posh contraption with a ‘dampner’, whatever that is.
See the shiny new pizza chimney on my personal blog, Old Lady By The Sea