The shadows lengthen as the sun sinks ever groundward toward the majestic autumn. The shorter days bring a memory of what is, was and may perhaps be. We do not understand and yet, feel the call as our bodies slow and still in readiness for the days ahead that we shall spend within. Trammeled inside away from the clean summer air that invades lungs and the sun that strengthens countenances.

All the new born creatures of the wild see the same signs, but yet do not know the inhospitable world that is to come. We of advancing years know only too well and this season shall send some flying after their parents and kin across the world, while others seek shelter within the comfort of such dry places that they can find, to while away the long nights of the coming winter. Perhaps like me they will ponder the great questions in the cold nights and realise that it was never the answer that was important, just the ability to pose the question was.

The morning remarkably was clear and golden hung from a blue sky but the rain came and washed away the memory of summer late in the afternoon. It shall return briefly for perhaps a few weeks more, but the cold now hugs the land like a winter mist and within our hearts we know it is time to say farewell to summer. All I ask is that you walk through this autumn with me a while for I have need of your warmth and love always.

Ps posted the wedding pics below