Autumn days

I love these lovely sunny days that Autumn often brings. It is quite cool in the morning but the sun streams into  my house almost all day long. I love this feature and designed the house to have appropriate shade during summer but allow the rays to penetrate at this time of year. During winter the sun streams in the family/lounge room almost to the kitchen and warms both the tiles and my spirits.
Normally, with a hot summer, I find some deciduous trees drop their leaves prematurely due to water stress. But this year the trees are only starting to drop their beautiful brown, gold and red leaves. I was in Oakleigh recently and the streets are just starting to have piles of brown leaves from some of the mature Oak Trees.
My Ginkgo tree is just turning gold and the Magnolia just browning off.
The weeds have been getting away from me but at least the main vegie garden has been dug over just waiting for the compost and organic manure to be added. Then its time to plant the winter crops of cauliflower, broccoli, asian greens, peas and broad beans. In fact I might just be a bit late!
Once this is done I'll have more time for reading all these interesting reports on climate change, carbon tax, literacy and even the odd fiction title "Time machines repaired, while u wait" by K. A. Bedford.