Gosh! August is over! Where has the year gone?

These photographs were taken just a month ago, during a scorching July, when it seemed that summer would never end, and the cold would never return!

Sadly August never lived up to the early promise, and we have had a rather wet, cold month. Now the garden is a sad and bedraggled memory of its earlier glories. (A bit like myself, I sometimes think ..) What with the evenings drawing in earlier and earlier, it seems as though autumn is already here. If the weather continues as it is, it is going to be a long, long winter! I do hope not. Endless long dark evenings, and wet, cold weather can be dispiriting. But who knows? September may be lovely. We must live in hope.