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These beautiful cones have changed colour from pale yellow to their signature red in just a week or so. At the edge of my favourite park, these bushes are so often overlooked as weeds, but they are at their most beautiful now with lush green foliage and red seed cones.

Wild roses? Done! Time for the seed pods to ripen up because fall is on its way!

We can complain as we will that the summer hasn’t been the summer we wanted.. too hot, too changeable, too plagued by smoke from the forest fires but nature only counts the sunlight hours, the moments of dark night. Nature knows when it is time to change the colour of the leaves, to paint the grass with the first filigree of frost, to send the geese down south. It’s always time for us to wake up and observe rather than ask , “How did that happen so fast?”