Under the Sun

Such beautiful sunshine in October! Such a surprise! I'm used to bright, cold mornings in October but not this lazy, sleepy sunshine that feels like summer. It reminds me so much of a late autumn holiday we had in Soller, Majorca where the temperatures soared and we looked up at brilliant blue skies through autumn leaves and imagined ourselves back in the height of summer.

Some years later we tried the same trick and were rewarded by autumn gales, swaying palm trees and torrential rain. Oh well, that's autumn for you! Here's what I wrote about the first dreamy holiday:

Under the Sun

Colours:
Evocative of a place;
A time.
Memories ...
Blue sky,
Wispy white clouds
Drifting over the mountains
To a pine-green shore.
Pine cones,
Pine-needles under foot
On grey rocky pathways,
Leading down
To a forgotten cove,
A silent ravine
Or gushing white torrent.

Dreaming
Of lazy pedaloes,
Sunbeds.
Lazily soaking up
The golden sun.
Brilliant blue,
A cloudless sky ...
Warmth and well-being.
Nothing to do;
Nothing to think!
Plans
Suspended in time.
To everything
A season and a purpose
Under heaven.

Summer
Gone, soon gone.
The sun
Dying in a reddened sky.
Leaves:
Brown and golden,
Yellow and red,
Stirring under my feet.
Trees rustling
In the autumn breeze.
A time for laughter,
Time for healing,
For re-creation
And a time
For sweet reflection ....