After a couple of days pottering waiting for it to rain, it finally arrived today, although it cleared later to give some beautiful light and we were able to sit outside with a cup of tea. Our visit today was to Holehird Gardens just outside Windermere. The Lakeland Horticultural Society's hillside gardens, it includes a great variety of specimen trees and shrubs, extensive rock and heather gardens, alpine houses, a walled garden, herbaceous borders and stream gardens. Well worth a visit. We had been in July for Heather's birthday and were keen to return in the autumn. It was so different three months later with wonderful colours. Yet again, I was taken with the succulents and alpines and wonder if that is what we should concentrate on in our greenhouse; food for thought.
Later, in the dusk, we walked up the lane to look for the barn owl that we had seen hunting over the fields previously. No luck, unfortunately, but the sunset was well worth going out for. The aurora alert went up to red and stayed there all night. Despite several forays outside even in the wee, small hours I had no luck. Annoyingly it was seen countrywide and even more annoyingly from the sea front back home.
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