Tag: autumn

'We live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.' The great Scottish biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) described the world as a vast leaf colony, both growing on and...

We are now into the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Low sunshine is lighting up the yellowing trees. The days are getting cooler, the wind more insistent. Scotland has had a blissfully mild...