I went foraging for sloes yesterday – time to start making this year’s Sloe Gin! Whilst at it, I took a few pictures of the hedgerow.
I went foraging for sloes yesterday – time to start making this year’s Sloe Gin! Whilst at it, I took a few pictures of the hedgerow.
I was just thinking that recently although I do like the Autumn 🙂
I liked the photos hope the gin goes ok heheh!
It’s usually pretty good – hic!
WOW! Your photos are amazing!
Happy gin making!
Thanks so much Veronica – cheers!
Since we don’t have them here, I looked up sloes in my dictionary. The small, dark, round, astringent fruit of the blackthorn, a European spiny plum. Like the plums in the last picture? The third and fourth pics you’ve posted look like our chokecherries.
We know them as Elderberries in the UK – good for flavouring wine as are the flowers that came before them.
Hi Keith – the fruits out there do look amazing this year – and the recent rain will really help. Gorgeous photos – cheers Hilary
Looking good! I these pictures between Asda and Pevensey Bay by the way!
My Dad made sloe wine rather than gin. It was a beautiful colour and extremely potent.
Oh the memories of forging for these, elderberries (and previously elderflower for his champagne), blackberries and just about anything else he wanted to try his hand at!
I pick them all! Once the gin’s made it’ll be time for my Elderberry wine!
Do you enter shows Keith? My Dad did every year and had several first and second places. He began to concentrate on alcohol content and the judge lost his voice!!!!
You are not the first person to mention that! Perhaps I should!
It’s good fun!!
I did enter a photo competition in the village fair a couple of years ago. I came third and the prize was 50p!
I won a hairdryer in a young girls comic competition in 1966. Mum was still using it in 2015.
Love autumn and the first chill of the changing season. Thank you for the photographs that bring memories of Autumn on the Weald.
A special time of year – just a shame it’s followed by winter! Thanks Carole
That’s going to be quite a harvest!
Beautiful photos and wonderful wild berries. You are so right, fall is a coming soon!
It certainly feels like it today! Thanks so much.
Fruits! Fruits! Fruits! ……. what a delicious post 🙂
Nothing nicer! Thanks so much.
No sloes here where I live in upstate New York. I recognize bramble fruits in some of the pictures . I’ve never had homemade sloe gin.
It’s delicious – I make it to give as Christmas presents!
Good luck with the wine making!….happy Fall too!
Thanks so much Suzy!
Fantastic series! I’m putting vegetables in the freezer, but making wine sounds more fun — and more warming in the winter. 🙂
Doesn’t it just? thanks Beth
Lip-smacking delicious is all I can say. And the vibrant greens, make me happy. 🙂
Thanks Keith. You made me smile once again, like you always do. 🙂
You really do say the nicest things! Thanks Natasha.