home alone

Nic has business to attend to back in London, so I offer to dog/house sit

for ten days and keep myself occupied.

After a few days on my own, the kitchen began to look like an old time grocers store, with jars of preserved fruits, vegetables and a selection of jams for the winter months.

outside in the sunshine beans and walnuts dry 

in the heat of the autumn rays

Dolly pretends to keep guard, but she is really waiting for someone to

throw her toy again.  She never tires of fetching things.

as I leave the walnut harvest begins to swell, this is probably a third 

of what will fall from the trees in the garden this autumn.