A deckchair-less day in October

Crikey! How could we forget the deckchairs?

Ever prepared for (most) eventualities, we had stand-by sit-down apparatus to hand

so we precariously perched

catching up

contemplating

reflecting

taking in our views

(her view and my view)

and a preamble

(about the magnificence of moss – coming into it’s own as the majority of flora around and about wanes)

before ambling through anyone’s garden

it’s October

and the effects of summer are fast fading

autumn, and the glory that brings, is stepping up

that said, a few blooms, as well as bees, linger in the languishing light

asters n common carder bumble bees

fox and cubs still blooming beautiful

and a few yellow hawkbits in bud

The demise of some heralds the uprise of others

mushrooms and toadstools

No picking

No identifying

Just looking

And photographing

Without moving anything –

many of the mushrooms are bursting through moss

and the mosses are slowly blanketing non degradable detritus discarded by humans

steadily concealing their presence from sight

anyone’s garden has a lot of features

left by people

or even

brought by people

like the mattresses

(we have discovered how they arrived here. Ironically, artists transported them, on a shopping trolley, in the rain, from another brownfield, to this one)

but we have no idea who’s moving them around anyone’s garden

or why –

but moving they are

so while we may not have witnessed

human interaction in anyone’s garden

it’s most definitely occurring.

Likewise, it would appear that quadrupeds forage amongst the flora

A squirrel has emerged – in parts

And the rat

found dead in August

a heap of cleaned bones

Limping along

A day in anyone's garden
in September
didn't happen

Sometimes, some things happen in life that distract us from the things that we enjoy in our lives
that's what happened in September

we are both limping
but time and nature continue to stride forward…
missed
by us
for a month