Blogtember Day 3: Summer's End...

Hi Honeys
Back again for day three of the Blogtember Challenge, a fabulous link up organized by the lovely Bailey Jean of Brave Love Blog.

Blogtember is a fun opportunity for bloggers to challenge themselves to post every day for a whole month, Bailey Jean has even provided writing prompts for each day (which you can read here.)

Today's prompt has to be the absolute saddest for me.  I live for Spring & Summer and I dread (and I mean properly dread like something from a Gothic horror novel!) Autumn & (especially) Winter. "Why Rosie?" I hear you ask.  Lot's of reasons really honeys, chief among them being...

1. The stork who delivered me couldn't read his map or instructions (please deliver this small Rosie somewhere it's warm... All. The. Time.)
2. I can't bear the cold (brrrrrr!seriously! just no!) 
3. I have rheumatoid arthritis (among other things) and winter hurts, I mean really "tries to twist me into a human pretzel" type hurts) 
4. I'm on the West Coast of Scotland and we get around six hours of daylight per day, tops, from October till around end January :/
5. To be fair to Autumn, I really only dislike it so much because it means my precious Summer has gone and it's dragging me (remember that dread?) towards Winter :/   

Is it any wonder I want to hibernate every year?  Now that we all need cheering up :) Here's today's prompt from Bailey Jean: "Now that Summer's at an end, share a list of favourites from the season!"

OK,  I can do this!  I can share some gorgeous things that will (hopefully) make us all smile :)

Without a doubt honeys, the one, single, thing I wait for (very impatiently) every year is this..

A perfect, azure blue sky with the fluffiest of clouds :) On a day like this you can put bets that I'll have laundry on the go and will be pegging it out on the line... bliss! It's been raining here today and I'm already wishing I could step into this photo and feel the warm sun on my face.

Of course Spring's arrival means the garden starts to wake from it's long Winter's nap and I can watch mother nature at work.  Every year I watch the beautiful peonies begin to fight their way to the surface..  

and every year they are stunning...

This year, on Mother's day, we went shopping for the perfect rose shrub to plant in honour of my beloved Mother in Law who loved roses.  We planted Mum's roses next to the long established rose bush we'd planted in memory of my much loved Gramma.  Imagine our surprise when after less than two months we saw this...

Mum's tiny baby rose bush grew six tiny rosebuds! Imagine what it might be like next year honeys :)

Gramma's gorgeous roses never fail to make me smile year after year, isn't there something exquisitely beautiful about a rose in the rain?

  There is a printable version of this image here honeys.

Of course we have more than roses (although they are my favourites) in our garden and it's such fun watching apples appear on our still young apple tree..

 Then there are the blueberries, such a bumper crop this year too!

If you'd like to see more of our garden honeys I've been keeping a photographic diary all year, through the Picture Perfect link up.

So, farewell to Summer then.  Hello to scarves, windy days and wishing it would all hurry up and take us to Spring again :) What's been your best Summer memory so far? Are you a Spring & Summer girl like me or do you look forward to Autumn & Winter?

Till tomorrow then honeys, when we'll be onward towards day four of Bailey Jean's wonderful Blogtember Challenge.  Till then, hug loads and smile till your face aches :)
Huggles always xxx