Autumn in Slovenia usually begins in August. While in Spain August is the peak of summer and therefore means nothing but temperatures around 40 ºC, cloudless sky and -for many people- the beginning of holidays, in Slovenia things definitely don’t go this way. People mostly go on holidays in July… at least you could say that at the look of empty roads and Ljubljana, looking like an abandoned town, while in August it already gets somehow louder, and the number of cars increases steadily until the first days of September when everyone is back to work and school.

Normally, we are not lucky with the weather in August either. This year’s one was therefore no exception: changeable and cold. And stormy. There have never been so many electric storms around here before, at least not that I would remember.
This crazy weather rushed the plants, too, and so in average they ripened 3 weeks earlier than usual. Including grapes. I tore off some of the last clusters of them this week in our home garden and we are just in mid September!

We had a lovely warm weekend although the mornings do appear quite fresher and almost every morning the city is covered with a thick layer of fog. Autumn is here, indeed. The look of the last tomato from the garden reminds me yet more about that.

These days I’ve been occupied with herbs and spices. I’m preparing them for drying and I also planted some new pots for the winter. I simply can’t be without greens in the house. Juanpi though, is not so happy about the insects that enter the house attracted by the intoxicated aromas of my plants… but I just can’t help it. I cannot imagine life without them (plants, not insects, nor Juanpi ).

In the next days, I will write a report on my herbs. Have a nice week!