Because it’s not the big goals and successes in life that bring true happiness, but the little joys that you choose to notice each day.
Seedlings! A wonderful promise-filled sight any time of year. These are the broccoli, lettuce and choi sum I sowed in September. The winter spinach are emerging too, and so are self-sown lamb’s lettuce and winter purslane. It’s too late to sow seeds now but it’s the perfect time to plant garlic, which I did this week too.
![Little Joys October: autumn seedlings in the garden](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-garden-autumn-seedlings-1024x698.jpg)
The last tomatoes and aubergines, indoors to ripen.
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Crunchy, crackly beechnut shells underfoot.
![Little joys October: crackly beechnut shells underfoot](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-autumn-nature-beechnuts-766x1024.jpg)
Being a gardener brings me lots of doggy friends. Here’s Murphy. Check out those eyebrows!
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Monkshood and maple. What a combo!
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Liquidambar tree is on my dream garden list.
![Little joys October: Liquidamber in autumn colours](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-nature-garden-liquidambar-tree-colours-699x1024.jpg)
Tasty lunch of leftover oxtail on toast. I shredded it and heated it through with some fried mushrooms and a spoonful of caramelized onion chutney. Om nom!
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The sunshine after the rain.
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Never tire of sunrises.
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Our local nursery donated lots of surplus growbags to our community garden! We topped up the raised beds and mulched a lot of other beds too.
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Bumblebee on salvia ‘Hot Lips’ at the community garden. These flower such a long time – they’ve been going since June!
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Fantastic liriope muscari – one of my faves at this time of year.
![Little Joys October: liriope muscari](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-garden-liriope-muscari-1024x769.jpg)
We went to the posh Indian fusion place in town and splashed out on the tasting menu. It was wonderful!
![Little joys October: wonderful tasting menu at an Indian restaurant](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-food-indian-restaurant-1024x822.jpg)
We had an amazing storm! Pink lightning, constant grinding thunder, and hailstones like acorns!
![Little Joys October: lightning storm](https://contactwithcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/little-joys-storm-nature-pink-lightning-1024x768.jpg)