Autumn has left us and Winter is here.

Autumn seemed a lot warmer this year than previous years.  Sometimes I think Mother Nature has the audacity to cool things down way too fast and throw us into a practice run for Winter but this year she allowed us to have some really lovely Autumn days. She even gave us some very needed rain as her grand finale.

Winter is a season people have mixed feelings about.  We all seem to like parts of Winter, well some of us do, but then there are parts we love to complain about like ‘it’s just too cold’.

I always feel winter Washes away the dust and cleans and freshens everything up. We get those wonderful crisp cool to cold and yes ok, sometimes freezing mornings, that can make it hard to get out of bed and where I live we sometimes get a frost.  Frosts here can be a mild crunch on the grass under your feet or a cover of white like a blanket over everything, but after a frost, we can often receive a beautiful fresh sunny day where the sky seems more blue than usual.  Everything is greener in Winter too.  Our summers dry everything up to leave us dusty and parched for nearly seven months of the year but in Winter everything seems to come back green and lush.

To me, Winter is saying goodbye to salads and making and eating homemade soups and casseroles. To be honest I cook casseroles throughout the year but in winter they seem so much more satisfying and you really can’t beat homemade soup.

How do you feel about Winter?  Good or bad? Let me know.

Polly