The Journal

The seasonal shifts in the UK are dramatic for such a relatively small island. The bright and riotous colour of spring emerges from the gloom of winter with shoots of green and longer evening skies. Then summer takes over with an ongoing bloom and stillness, where a new energy is sustained, even through the occasional and ubiquitous rain showers, with the country’s shores and beaches full of life and celebration. But it is perhaps the journey into autumn that stirs the most emotional reaction for the residents and visitors here. It can take one by surprise as autumnal nights borrow light from late summer evenings and replace them with a canopy of copper and gold upon the chilly ground.