However many times you gather them up, the leaves just keep falling.

Fallen leaves gather round the fringes of the crazy golf

and along fences near the water feature at the Abbey Meadows.

All a bit dull and soggy.

When it got dark there were two bright lights very close together near the moon: Venus and Jupiter.

(The last picture is not mine but it shows what it was like on Dec 1st. They had drifted a little further apart by Dec 2nd. We are at the start of advent, the season of wonder. )