More Signs of Autumn

I walked through the valley from Hessenford to Seaton this afternoon in the beautiful summer weather and found myself crunching through a thick layer of dry discarded sycamore leaves. Since last week, when I noticed some brown spotted leaves on some of the trees, we have a situation where many of the trees are already bare. Is it just that they think it's almost winter, or is something else? It's only the sycamores, luckily, not any of the other trees, but it's still very odd.

The beach at Seaton has been cleaned up a bit, although there are still a few piles of rotting kelp here and there, and there were lots of people on the beach - even some in the water, although most of them were wearing wet suits. We had a pleasant couple of hours sitting on the terrace at Downderry and just watching the world go by.