n?29.10.2020 Does one descent make an autumn?

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Thursday 29th 47-52F, variable wind and solid overcast. Sunny periods promised. Autumn has descended upon us. Ochres suddenly compete with umbras and sienna for attention. As buildings pop out of the scenery from behind once-concealing trees.

The Jinping Plague continues to plague us. With its new records of infections and sheer numbers lining the emergency wards. Small birds flit from tree branch to shrub to tall weed in the blink of a [jaundiced]  eye. 

Solitary crows transit the prairies carrying conkers in gaping beaks. Mink gulls mill noisily over serried ranks of long, low sheds. Fenced and abandoned. Like strings of railway carriages, from a forgotten era, going nowhere soon.

 

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