...another sign for winter coming soon?
by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
The conkers, that is to say the fruits of the Horse Chestnut, have begun dropping by early September in 2010 and acorns started to fall already a week or nearly a fortnight before that.
To all intents and purposes this is at least a fortnight if not a month ahead of time and the mornings, for instance, do not feel like beginning to middle of September but rather like October. And it is not a case that the conkers and acorns are not ripe; they are. Predominately, at least.
There is an absolute bumper crop of apples this years and I understand the same to be true with pears, and also with plums.
Apple trees are so laden with fruit that the branches of those that do not have all that much of a trunk as much as touch the ground because of the weight of the fruit.
Again, Mother Nature seems to be trying to tell us something... Are we listening?
© 2010
