September – last on the card

My foolish surprise when it’s time for Bushboy‘s ‘Last on the card’ always pleases me somehow – I never know what I’m going to find. My last photo for September …

Brian takes beautiful photos, which you will find on his blog ‘bushboy’s world’. He also runs this fun and forgiving challenge, where we post the last photo we took in the month just gone by.

The rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for 30th September.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do
4. Create a Pingback to the post on bushboy’s blog or link in the comments
5. Tag “The Last Photo”

Here’s mine:

I was happy to see it was a fire in our wood-burner, lit for the first time this season. It hasn’t been a cold autumn so far but on 30 September the weather was wet, windy and chilly all day long and it was a treat to have this warmth in the late afternoon and evening. A kettle for hot water bottles and a pan of apples simmering on top.

These are proper seasoned logs – we burn natural wood first to collect the ashes for the garden. After this it will be whatever we can get that is good and dry – usually ‘waste’ that is otherwise destined to be destroyed for no good end. It’s got to be clean wood, not painted or treated with chemicals but it might have nails and staples in it. We have to fish those out of the ashes with a magnet! Ashes collected from these burnings are used to fill up potholes.

I love our woodburner – and it happens to look a bit like Brian’s so it’s nice to show it here.

Great to see you back, Brian!