November in the garden

A beautiful sunny day and the great outdoors beckons.Wellies on and out we go to see if Autumn has really gone and Winter has arrived.We fill the bird feeders and take a walk to examine the trees.Amazingly, there are still some raspberries which we pick and the children know that these go into the freezer for Elizabeth.When she comes home from Australia at Christmas,she can will enjoy them as part of her usual breakfast so they are very precious. The pear tree still has a couple of pears and tomorrow we will juice them along with other pears we have in storage. The children can then taste our own pear juice.We admire the bark on the birch tree. It is such a perfect day and one to be cherished so we go for a walk down the field. We take the binoculars and I tell the children that we are going bird watching.It is a wonderful opportunity to give them a lesson on how to use the binoculars.Much fun is had at first looking at the cows through the binoculars, then at the lodge , houses in Rosses Point and finally we focused on some brent geese feeding on the shore. We are so lucky as we once again enjoy our wonderful natural environment.