Fall

For some time now I've been planning to regale you (yet again) with pictures of my perfect house inside and out.  So here's my 2026 autumn outlook:

From my driveway, the road leading to the cliff top.  When I lived here before, the white houses didn't exist and only the large red roofed Wentworth House was visible.  I quite like the white houses.  They look a bit Welsh to me and are occupied by the son and daughter of the owner of Wentworth House, almost a hamlet.  Note trees in autumn splendour.

Looking down the street, the beautiful crab apples.  I was rather taken aback a couple of days later when the house owner came out and chopped off all the russety gold leaves.

and from my garden

So you can understand my horror on waking up on the first day of winter to the sound of chainsaws and the sight of toppling poplars.  I immediately notified Clarence Council and was blithely told that permission for the work had been granted in 2019.  So there.

I had to admit that it looked quite entrancing by moonlight

As perhaps did I.  Later in the week I got to talk with the landscaper, Alison herself from https://alisonsgarden.com.au/ .  The poplars (Lombardy - a weed apparently) are to be replaced with tulip trees which have a similar form and tulip shaped flowers.  They haven't got to the planting yet.  I shall keep you informed.