Despite the cold clear nights of last week, the unusually warm weather continuing into October seems to be producing strange anomalies in the garden. This is a photo taken of flowers on a “Katy” apple tree yesterday. 
Over the past few months, each successive report from the scientific community seems to be outdoing the last in dire predictions of approaching a “tipping point” with the possibility of a sudden, abrupt flip into a whole new climate regime – possibly within the space of a few years- increasingly likely. For an excellent review of the latest situation see Sharon Astyk
This week Ive also enjoyed reading this discussion of human’s place in natural succession: are we preparing the way for the next stage in a natural succession and thus hastening our own demise, just as pioneers help create the conditions for canopy tree species which then over-shade them?
