Winter is looming in the air

Next Saturday night, we will move our clock one hour backwards. We will soon officially enter winter time. There was a cold front 2 weeks before we officially entered the winter time zone and the temperature kept going down and down to the mid single digits. At higher altitude in some parts of the country are already receiving snow fall. The famous ski resort and the villages around Davos, where head of states and the world known economist meet up during World Economic Forum is already white with snow. Skiing season is already starting in some parts of Switzerland.
My garden is quite high in altitude, about 700metres above sea level. I'm still quite lucky that my surrounding is still very much golden red autumn. Some days, when the fog comes in, I am above the fog-line. Sometimes its nice to walk at the wide open spaces of the corn fields and take in the colours, even when the sky is grey. The warm colours in the nature really cheered me up.

Whenever the sun peeked out from behind the clouds, I took the chance to be outside in the garden and bathe in the golden light of autumn.

Last year, the snow arrived on the last day of October. Honestly, I'm not looking forward to the first snowfall in the garden. I'm really not ready and the garden is still full with buds and blooming despite the drop in temperatures.

The cool temperature really brings out the intensity of the colours from the flowers and leaves. There are still small bugs flying around collecting nectar. They must be very hungry now that there are less wild flowers in the meadows.

Sometimes I just sit there amongst my plants and observe the wildlife busy enjoying the autumn beauties.

They really taught me to make the best of the last moments in autumn and try to enjoy the garden leftovers even when it means I have to go around with thick pullover and a layer of windbreaker.

Nature is an amazing teacher.