The 23rd September is the Autumn Equinox – derived from the Latin words equus (equal) and nox (night). We are at a point where the long summer days are all but over, and the nights grow longer.
Churches celebrate the harvest at this time of year. At Trinity yesterday the suggested list of harvest offerings to be given to The Asylum Welcome Centre included: cooking oil, sugar, UHT milk, tea and coffee, long-life fruit juice, couscous, noodles, lentils, jam, honey, biscuits and tinned vegetables, fruit, soup, fish and meat (not pork) with best before date of 6 months.
The leaves are turning in the avenue of trees between The Chestnuts and Wick Hall.
In the fields between Mill Lane and the A34, the harvest is over, and a tractor is tilling the ground for the next crop.
However, the garden at St Ethelwolds are still looking bountiful with: strings of tomatoes …
apples …
a few late raspberries
and many late flowers.
The garden at St Ethelwolds this year have been open for people to discover – at all seasons.
Some horses are more equal than others.
(Lovely pix!)
Should be aequus – I am sure the learned Backstreeter knows this and it was his spellchecker wot dun it!