Just sittin' on my porch, watchin' the fireflies dance in the moonlit sky. Ain't nothin' like a warm summer night in the South, sippin' sweet tea and talkin' 'bout fishin'. Catchin' bass on the ol' river, castin' that line with a twinkle in my eye. It's pure bliss, ya know? 🌙🎣 #SouthernSummer

The joy at a visible if fleeting sign of #NorthernWinter is real; if always allied to an awareness of what's wrong, and what's happening in #SouthernSummer. But take your joys. I sneaked up before work to Queens Wood, Highgate last week, a wonderful fragment of Oak-Hornbeam woodland, when the snow had fallen; watched a Redwing (Rotdrossel) gobbling ivy berries, too, a sight without which I don't think winter has properlyhappened #climatediary #klimatagebuch