Weeding and Dogwoods!

Toyed around this morning with the possibility of putting a gate out of the courtyard. It looks nice, we MIGHT do it..............but not right now!

More tedious jobs on the books today! The main one weeding this path! Groan!!!! For some reason this particular path grasses over much quicker than the rest. We think it's probably because we don't use it that often , But with so many frogs around, spraying isn't an option so it's just a matter of some good old fashioned hard yakka!

Yikes! Just as bad looking the other way!

But...in no time at all it's all beautiful again .................

Both ways!

Phew! Much better..... for now!!!

The Autumn days are getting noticeably shorter as Winter creeps up on us. The day seems to barely begin before it's time to stop and feed the animals all over again in the afternoon! Still enough time though to linger over these beautiful Icelandic Poppies ...............

And admire the dogwoods l put in less than a year ago. They have grown incredibly fast and have suddenly turned such stunning colours.

With the copse of Silver Birches behind them, one day they will look fabulous in the Winter with the white of the birch trunk and the red of the dogwood stems........

Sort of like this...........sort of!!!

That's the plan anyway!