A new season

Just as winter arrives on the calendar, it arrives with me too.

I had a sore throat on Saturday through Sunday. Surprise, surprise, it's since stolen my voice, bunged my head up with pressure and stolen my energy. When I woke up this morning with the symptoms seemingly even more intense I decided to give in to it and take a day off work to give myself chance to recover.

I stayed in bed 'til late and did very little after I did get up. When I ventured outside to collect the mail I noticed that all the beautifully coloured autumn leaves from my smoke tree are now on the ground. The tree looks so skeletal.

I guess we really are in winter now :(