Figgate Park today

 We had a lovely short walk round Figgate Park this morning. The weather has been very changeable today with several heavy showers of rain, but we managed to time our walk to co-incide with the dry times! 

The rowan trees are beautiful just now! Different species and varieties of rowan trees have different coloured berries. I particularly like the contrast between the yellow berries and red leaves on this rowan

We made friends with this Grey Squirrel, who was particularly unafraid of us 

It was a lovely autumn walk

Thanks to Crafty Green Boyfriend, who took all the photos in this post.

In the Office

The rain has stopped.
From my desk, I watch
October sunlight play
on the white walls
of the football stadium
across the car-park.

Upstairs, someone else’s boss
moans about the weather
‘It’s raining cats and dogs
and dark as winter’.
I am my own boss
free to watch the slow movement
of sunlight across white walls
as geese fly overhead
winter on their wings.


Originally published in the seemingly now defunct Work Literary Magazine.

Rainy Season haiku

no rain

in this 'rainy season' -

silent lightning 

 **

Inspired by my time in Malawi, where the rains failed in my second autumn.

First published in The Mamba, Issue 14, the journal of the Africa Haiku Network.